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City

A city is a relatively large and permanent settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.For example, in the U.S...

 and town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

s whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time.

see also: Geographical renaming

Geographical renaming

Geographical renaming is the changing of the name of a geographical feature or area. This can range from the uncontroversial change of a street name to a highly disputed change to the name of a country. Some names are changed locally but the new names are not recognised by other countries,...

 and Names of European cities in different languages

Names of European cities in different languages

Many cities in Europe have different names in different languages. Some cities have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article attempts to give all known different names for all major cities that are geographically or historically and culturally in Europe...

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• Ikosium → Icosium → Algiers
  Algiers
  ' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000...
  
  
• Géryville → El Bayadh
  El Bayadh
  El Bayadh is a municipality of Algeria. It is the capital of El Bayadh Province....
  
  
• Cirta → Constantine
  Constantine, Algeria
  Constantine is the capital of Constantine Province in north-eastern Algeria. It was the capital of the same-named French département until 1962. Slightly inland, it is about 80 kilometres from the Mediterranean coast, on the banks of Rhumel river...
  
  
• Hippo Regius → Bône → Annaba
  Annaba
  Annaba is a city in the northeastern corner of Algeria near the river Seybouse. It is located in Annaba Province. With a population of 257,359 , it is the fourth largest city in Algeria. It is a leading industrial centre in eastern Algeria....
  
  
• Rusicade → Philippeville → Skikda
  Skikda
  Skikda is a city in north eastern Algeria and a port on the Gulf of Stora, the ancient Sinus Numidicus. It was known as Philippeville until the end of the Algerian War of Independence in 1962...
  
  
• Castellum Tingitanum → Orléansville → El Asnam → Chlef
  Chlef
  Chlef is the capital of Chlef Province, Algeria. It is home to the soccer club ASO Chlef, the Hassiba Ben Bouali university, and the basilica of Saint Reparatus, which is home to the oldest Christian labyrinth in the world....
  
  
• Malaca → Calama → Guelma
  Guelma
  Guelma is the capital of Guelma Province and Guelma District, located in northeastern Algeria, about 65 kilometers from the Mediterranean coast...
  
  
• Colomb-Béchar → Béchar
  Béchar
  Béchar , formerly known as Colomb-Béchar, is a capital city of Béchar Province, Algeria. The area is controlled by Algeria, though claims have also been made on it by Morocco. In 1998 the city had a population of 134,954....
  
  
• Saint André de Mers-el-Kébir → Mers-el-Kébir
  Mers-el-Kébir
  Mers-el-Kébir is a port town in northwestern Algeria, located by the Mediterranean Sea near Oran, in the Oran Province.-History:Originally a Roman port, Mers-el-Kébir became an Almohad naval arsenal in the 12th century, fell under the rulers of Tlemcen in the 15th century, and eventually became a...
  
  
• Saldae → Bougie → Béjaïa
  Béjaïa
  Béjaïa, Vgaiet or Bejaya is a Mediterranean port city on the Gulf of Béjaïa in Algeria; it is the capital of Béjaïa Province, Kabylia. Under French rule, it was formerly known under various European names, such as Budschaja in German, Bugia in Italian, and Bougie...
  
  
• Fort Laperrine → Tamanrasset

• Amboim → Cabela → Gabela
  Gabela
  Gabela is a town in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, 5 kilometres south of Čapljina and 4 kilometers from Metković, in Croatia. It is situated in the navigable lower course of the Neretva, off the major road linking the coast with the mountainous hinterland...
  
  
• Benguella → Benguela
  Benguela
  Benguela is a city in western Angola, south of Luanda, and capital of Benguela Province. It lies on a bay of the same name, in 12° 33’ S., 13° 25’ E...
  
   (1975)
• Cabinda
  Cabinda (city)
  Cabinda or Tchiowa, as it is called by the Cabindans, is a city that is located in the Cabinda Province, an exclave of Angola. Angolan sovereignty over Cabinda is disputed by the Republic of Cabinda...
  
   → Tchiowa (proposed)
• Carmona → Uíge
  Uíge
  Uíge is a provincial capital city in northwestern Angola located in the province of the same name. It grew from a small market centre in 1945 to becoming a city in 1956.-Name:...
  
   (1975)
• Concelho
  Concelho
  Concelho , in the Portuguese language, is the word municipality, when referring to the territory. The word município is used when municipality means the organ of State...
  
   → Caconda
  Caconda
  Caconda is a municipality and city situated in the North of the province of Huila, Angola, in the Plano Alto region, approximately 280 km North of Lubango, the provincial capital city, and approximately 700 km South from Luanda, the country's capital city. The Concelho was officially founded on...
  
   (1975)
• Henrique de Carvalho → Saurimo
  Saurimo
  Saurimo is the capital of the Lunda Sul province of Angola, Saurimo has a population of approximately 200,000...
  
   (1975)
• Huambo
  Huambo
  Huambo, formerly Nova Lisboa , is the capital of Huambo province in Angola. The city is located about 220 km E from Benguela and 600 km SE from Luanda. The city's last known population count was 225,268...
  
   → Nova Lisboa → Huambo
  Huambo
  Huambo, formerly Nova Lisboa , is the capital of Huambo province in Angola. The city is located about 220 km E from Benguela and 600 km SE from Luanda. The city's last known population count was 225,268...
  
   (1975)
• Loanda → Luanda
  Luanda
  Luanda, formerly named São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda, is the capital and largest city of Angola. Located on Angola's coast with the Atlantic Ocean, Luanda is both Angola's chief seaport and its administrative center. It has a population of at least 5 million...
  
   (1975)
• Moçâmedes → Namibe
  Namibe
  Namibe is the capital city of Namibe Province in Angola. It is a coastal desert city located in southwestern Angola and was founded in 1840 by the Portuguese rulers of the territory. The city's current population is 132,900...
  
   (1985)
• Novo Redondo → Sumbe
  Sumbe
  Sumbe is a city located in west central Angola. It is the administrative capital of Cuanza Sul Province. Its population counts about 26,000....
  
   (1975)
• Kissonde → Benguela → Benguela Velha → Porto Amboim
  Porto Amboim
  Porto Amboim is a port town in Angola with a population of 65,000; it comprises an area of 4,638 km². It is connected by an isolated 123 km 610mm narrow gauge railway to Gabela, albeit closed in 1987 due to the civil war and to the abandonment of most coffee plantations, the biggest...
  
   (1923) → Gunza/Porto Gabela (proposed)
• Porto Alexandre → Tombwe
  Tombwe
  Tômbua is a city and municipality in Namibe Province, Angola.It is an important port on the South Atlantic Ocean for oil production and fishing. The port had refrigeration facilities installed with European Union assistance at the Tombwe canning factory....
  
  /Tombua
• Robert Williams town
  Robert Williams town
  Vila Robert Williams was the former name of Caála, Cuando Cubango province of Angola, in the then Portuguese Angola . The town of Robert Williams was just west of Nova Lisboa and was remarkable for huge outcroppings of boulders that jutted from the fields just outside of the town...
  
  /Vila Robert Williams → Caála
  Caála
  Caála is a town located in Huambo Province in Angola. It was known as Robert Williams town while Angola was a Portuguese colony, after the famous railroad developer and mining magnate, Sir Robert Williams. The town's last known population count was 22,010....
  
   (1975)
• Sá da Bandeira → Lubango
  Lubango
  Lubango is the capital city of the Angolan province of Huíla. Its last known population was 100,757. Until 1975, the city's official name was Sá da Bandeira.-Portuguese rule:...
  
  
• São Salvador → M'banza-Kongo
  M'banza-Kongo
  M'banza-Kongo , is the capital of Angola's northwestern Zaire Province. M'banza Kongo was founded some time before the arrival of the Portuguese and was the capital of the dynasty ruling at that time...
  
   (1975)
• Santa Comba
  Santa Comba
  Santa Comba refers to a saint named Comba, a fusion of two female saints: Columba of Sens and Columba of Spain, and may refer to:Portual*Santa Comba Dão, a city and municipality*Santa Comba , a parish in the district of Ponte de Lima...
  
   → Waku-Kungo
  Waku-Kungo
  Waku-Kungo is a town located in Cuanza Sul Province in Angola. Its population is approximately 30,000. It was the site of a 1994 bombing of a school, resulting in the death of 89 children.-References:...
  
   (1975)
• Santo António do Zaire → Soyo
  Soyo
  Soyo is a city located in the province of Zaire in Angola. Soyo recently became the largest oil-producing region in the country, with an estimate of .-Early history:...
  
  
• Serpa Pinto → Menongue
  Menongue
  Menongue is a town and municipality in Cuando Cubango Province in Angola.It is the terminus of the southern railway from Namibe.-History:Menongue, formerly Serpa Pinto, was originally named for Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, a late 19th-century Portuguese explorer of the interior of...
  
   (1975)
• Silva Porto → Kuito
  Kuito
  Kuito is a city located in central Angola. It is the administrative capital of Bié Province. Under Portuguese rule until 1975, it was called Silva Porto. Kuito was under siege in 1993/94 and again in 1998/99 by the rebel forces from UNITA...
  
  /Cuito (1975)
• Teixeira da Silva → Bailundo
  Bailundo
  Bailundo is a municipality and town in Huambo Province in the central highlands of Angola.In the 1990s, Bailundo was the location of the headquarters of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi....
  
  /Bailunda
• Teixeira de Sousa → Luau (1975)
• Vila Luso → Luena
  Luena, Moxico Province
  Luena is a town located in east central Angola. It is the administrative capital of Moxico Province. While no exact figures are available, estimates on the population of the city varies from 60,000 to 200,000 residents, including an unknown number of refugees from the Angolan Civil War that...
  
   (1975)
• Vila Salazar → N'dalatando
  N'dalatando
  N'dalatando is a town and municipality and capital of Cuanza Norte Province in Angola.It is served by a station on the northern railway of Angolan Railways....
  
   (1975)

See List of renamed cities in Armenia

• Akhta → Hrazdan
  Hrazdan
  Hrazdan is the capital of the Kotayk province of Armenia. The name Hrazdan is derived from the Middle-Persian name Frazdan. Farzdan is connected to the Zoroastrian mythology. With a population of 52,900 it is the fifth-largest city in Armenia by population. It has lost significant population since...
  
  
• Alagyoz → Tsakhkahovit → Aragats (1950)
• Artashat → Verin Ghamarlu → Artashat
  Artashat
  Artashat , is a city on Araks River in the Ararat valley, 30 km southeast of Yerevan. Being one of the oldest cities of Armenia, Artashat is the capital of Ararat Province. Modern Artashat is situated on the Yerevan-Nakhichevan-Baku and Nakhichevan-Tabriz railway and on...
  
   (1945)
• Basarkechar → Vardenis
  Vardenis
  Vardenis .The town of Vardenis occupies the south-eastern corner of Gegharkunik province of the Republic of Armenia. The town is located in the valley of the Masrik river, on the territory of the Masrik artesian basin at a height of 1943 meters above sea level. It is 170 km from the capital...
  
   (1945)
• Dadakishlag → Akhundov → Punik
• Davalou → Ararat
  Ararat, Armenia
  Ararat is a city in Armenia in the province of Ararat, about 42 km northwest of Yerevan.The Ararat Cement Factory has been opened in 1927 along with small apartments to accommodate the workers. In 1935, it was incorporated with the village of Davalu. In 1939 the town of Ararat was officially...
  
   (1935)
• Dyuzkand → Akhuryan
  Akhuryan
  Akhuryan is a village and rural community in the Shirak Province of Armenia. The National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia reported its population was 9,643 in 2010, down from 9,696 at the 2001 census....
  
   (1950)
• Geryusi → Goris
  Goris
  Goris is a city in the Syunik Marz of Armenia. Located in the valley of river Goris , it is about 240 km away from the Armenian capital Yerevan and 70 km from the Syunik Marz center Kapan. Goris forms an urban community...
  
   (1924)
• Hamamlou → Spitak
  Spitak
  Spitak is a city in northern Armenia located in the Lori region with a population of 18,237. It was mostly destroyed by the devastating Spitak Earthquake in 1988, and was subsequently rebuilt in a slightly different location. Spitak means '"White" in Armenian....
  
   (1948)
• Erivan → Yerevan (1936)
• Jalaloghlou → Stepanavan
  Stepanavan
  Stepanavan is the second largest city in Lori Province of Armenia. The town is located 139 km north of the capital Yerevan and 24 km north of the provincial centre Vanadzor, in the centre of Yerevan-Tbilisi highway....
  
   (1930)
• Kafan → Kapan
  Kapan
  -Notable landmarks:*Vahanavank monastery*Baghaberd and Halidzor Fortresses.*Tatev Monastery - This monastery, situated northwest of Kapan was founded in the ninth century in the place of an ancient tabernacle well-known in ancient times...
  
   (1990)
• Karaklis → Kirovakan (1935) → Vanadzor
  Vanadzor
  -Industry:Vanadzor is dominated by large chemical plants which include: "Prometey-Khimprom", "Vanadzor Chemical Plant", "Vanadzor Khimprom" and "Vanadzor Chemical Fiber Plant". Another big enterprise is the "Vanadzor Thermal Power Plant....
  
   (1993)
• Krasnoselsk → Chambarak
  Chambarak
  Chambarak is a town in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. Chambarak was founded in 1835-40 on the Getik River by Russian immigrants, with the name Mikhaylovka...
  
   (1993)
• Kumayri → Alexandropol (1840) → Gümrü → Leninakan (1924) → Gyumri
  Gyumri
  Gyumri is the capital and largest city of the Shirak Province in northwest Armenia. It is located about 120 km from the capital Yerevan, and, with a population of 168,918 , is the second-largest city in Armenia.The name of the city has been changed many times in history...
  
   (1990)
• Kyavar → Novo-Bayazet/Nor Bayazet (1830) → Kamo (1959) → Gavar
  Gavar
  Gavar , is a city and the provincial capital of the Armenian province of Gegharkunik. It was known as Nor Bayezet or Novyi Bayazet until 1959, then Kamo until 1996...
  
   (1996)
• Lusavan → Charentsavan
  Charentsavan
  Charentsavan is a city located in the Kotayk Province of Armenia. Its population of 19,708 people at the 2001 census has since declined. The city was founded in 1948, and renamed in 1967 in honor of the poet Yeghishe Charents.- References :...
  
   (1967)
• Nerkin Karanlough → Martuni
  Martuni, Armenia
  Martuni is a city located in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. It is near Lake Sevan which is a largest lake in the Caucasus. Its population is estimated to be 11,987 as of 2008...
  
   (1926)
• Sardarabad/Sardarapat → Hoktemberyan (1932) → Armavir
  Armavir, Armenia
  Armavir is a city located in western Armenia. The 1989 census reported that the city had a total population of 46,900, but this has declined considerably: the 2001 census counted 32,034; estimate for 2008 is 26,387. It is the capital of the Armavir province . The city of Armavir in Russia, founded...
  
   (1992)
• Soylan → Azizbekov (1956) → Vayk
  Vayk
  Vayk and Soylan prior to 1956) is a town in the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia.One km east of the town is a bridge rebuilt by General Paskevich in 1827.- References :* – World-Gazetteer.com...
  
   (1994)
• Nubarashen → Sovetashen → Nubarashen
  Nubarashen
  Nubarashen is a district of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It is situated southeast of the city centre.- History :In 1930, by the support and sponsorship of the founder and president of the AGBU Egyptian-Armenian benefactor Boghos Nubar was decided to build a town with name Nubarashen...
  
  
• Uloukhanlou → Narimanlou → Zangibasar → Razdan → Masis
  Masis (city)
  Masis , incorporating the former villages of Narimanlu, Zangibasar, and Ulukhanlu, is a town in Armenia in Ararat Province , located on the left bank of the Hrazdan River, 14km south of Yerevan. The city has a large railroad commodity station that serves Yerevan and which was, until the closing of...
  
  
• Vagharshapat → Echmiadzin
  Echmiadzin
  Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin is a 4th century Armenian church in the town of Ejmiatsin, Armenia. It is also the central cathedral of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin of the Armenian Apostolic Church....
  
   (1941)
• Vorontsovka → Kalinino (1937) → Tashir
  Tashir
  Tashir is a town located in Lori province . Population -7856.0 Territory- 79.5 sq. km. It is a city in the district of Tashir, administrative centre of previous district of Kalinino. Distance from regional centre is 42 km...
  
   (1991)

• Sturt → Alice Springs (NT)
• Ballaarat → Ballarat (VIC)
• Mayday Hills → Beechworth (NSW)
• Bendigo's Creek → Sandhurst → Bendigo (VIC)
• Dumbletown → Beverly Hills
  Beverly Hills, New South Wales
  Beverly Hills is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Beverly Hills is located 17 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the St George area. Beverly Hills lies across two local government areas, the City of Hurstville and the...
  
   (NSW)
• Emu Bay → Burnie (TAS)
• Port Darwin → Palmerston → Darwin
  Darwin, Northern Territory
  Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...
  
   (NT)
• Germanton → Holbrook
  Holbrook, New South Wales
  Holbrook is a small town in Southern New South Wales, Australia. It is on the Hume Highway, 356 km North-East of Melbourne and 491 km south-west of Sydney between Tarcutta and Albury. The town is in the Greater Hume Shire Council area which was established in May 2004 from the merger of...
  
   (NSW)
• Limestone Station → Ipswich (QLD)
• Bearbrass → Melbourne
  Melbourne
  Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
  
   (VIC)
• Mobilong → Murray Bridge (SA)
• Blackman's Flat → Orange
  Orange, New South Wales
  Orange is a city in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. It is west of the state capital, Sydney, at an altitude of . Orange has an estimated population of 39,329 and the city is a major provincial centre....
  
   (NSW)
• Currajong → Parkes
  Parkes, New South Wales
  - Transport :Parkes has a local bus service provided by Western Road Liners, which acquired Harris Bus Lines in March 2006. The Indian Pacific also stops twice a week, as well as the Broken Hill Outback Xplorer service, run by CountryLink, which heads to Broken Hill on Mondays and Sydney on...
  
   (NSW)
• Belfast → Port Fairy (TAS)
• Flooding Creek → Sale
  Sale, Victoria
  Sale is a city in the Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. It is the seat of the Shire of Wellington as well as the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sale and the Anglican Diocese of Gippsland. It has a population of around 13,336, and is expected to reach a population of 14,000 soon...
  
   (VIC)
• McGuire's Punt → Sheppardtown → Shepparton
  Shepparton, Victoria
  Shepparton is a city located on the floodplain of the Goulburn River in the north east of Victoria, Australia approximately north-east of Melbourne. It is the fifth largest city in Victoria, Australia. The estimated population of Shepparton's statistical area is 48,926.It began as a sheep station...
  
   (VIC)
• Newcastle → Toodyay (WA)
• Hummock Hill → Whyalla (SA)

See List of renamed cities in Azerbaijan

• Mardakert
  Mardakert (town)
  Aghdara or Martakert is the de facto administrative center of Martakert Province of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and a de jure town in the Tartar Rayon of Azerbaijan. The town is de-facto part of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since the end of the 1991-94 Nagorno-Karabakh War.- References :* –...
  
   → Ağdərə (1991, change not recognized by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
  Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
  The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic , or Artsakh Republic is a de facto independent republic located in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia...
  
   which controls this city)
• Aşağı Ağcakənd → Şaumyanovsk (1938) → Aşağı Ağcakənd (1990)
• Astraxan-Bazar → Cəlilabad
  Jalilabad
  Jalilabad is a rayon of Azerbaijan. The capital is the city of Cəlilabad ....
  
   (1967)
• Beyləqan → Zhdanov (1939) → Beyləqan
  Beylagan
  Beylagan is a rayon of Azerbaijan, with capital city being Beylagan.The 5th century Armenian historian Moses of Chorene states that this name is from the Persian name Payda-gharan , that its meaning is not clear , but "-an" in the last section means "place of " in Persian .-External links:*...
  
   (1991)
• Biləsuvar → Puşkino (1938) → Biləsuvar
  Bilasuvar
  Bilasuvar is a rayon of Azerbaijan.It has been said that the ancient name was Pileh-Swar that in Persian means "the elephant-riding person " , named after one of the Buyid dynasty amirs. The name in Turkic means pure water falls, due to the area's numerous rivers, though given the largely flat...
  
   (1991)
• Dəvəçi → Şabran (2010)
• Duvannı → Sanqaçal
  Sanqaçal
  Sanqaçal is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 4,108....
  
  
• Gəncə → Elisabethpol (1805) → Gəncə (1918) → Kirovabad (1935) → Gəncə
  Ganja, Azerbaijan
  Ganja is Azerbaijan's second-largest city with a population of around 313,300. It was named Yelizavetpol in the Russian Empire period. The city regained its original name—Ganja—from 1920–1935 during the first part of its incorporation into the Soviet Union. However, its name was changed again and...
  
   (1989)
• Goranboy → Qasım-İsmayılov (1938) → Goranboy
  Goranboy
  Goranboy is a rayon of Azerbaijan. During the Soviet era the region was best known for the oil-cure sanatorium resort of Naftalan, though administratively Naftalan technically counts as an independent city. Naftalan is now starting to operate again following several years of virtual inaction when...
  
   (1990)
• Helenendorf → Yelenino → Xanlar (1938) → Göygöl
  Goygol (city)
  Goygol is a city and municipality in and the capital of the Goygol Rayon in northwestern Azerbaijan. It is about 10 km south of Ganja, Azerbaijan's second largest city. The city of Goygol has a population of 19,000...
  
   (2008)
• Karyagino → Füzuli
  Füzuli
  Füzuli is a city in the Fizuli Rayon of Azerbaijan. It is currently an uninhabited ghost town.- Notable natives :...
  
   (1959)
• Xonaşen → Martuni
  Martuni (town)
  Khojavend is a town and the provincial capital of the Martuni province of the de facto independent but unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. It is located approximately 41 kilometers east of the republic's capital of Stepanakert...
  
   → Xocavənd (1991, change not recognized by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
  Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
  The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic , or Artsakh Republic is a de facto independent republic located in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia...
  
   which controls this city)
• Noraşen → İliç[evsk] → Şərur
  Sharur
  Sharur is an rayon of Azerbaijan in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.-History:Sharur formed part of the territory of the Nakhichevan Khanate until its abolition in 1828. In the Russian empire it was made a part of the Armenian Oblast. After the oblast was abolished, it became a part of...
  
   (1991)
• Petropavlovka → Petropavlovsk → Sabirabad
  Sabirabad (city)
  Sabirabad is a city in and the capital of the Sabirabad Rayon of Azerbaijan...
  
   (1931)
• Port-Ilich → Liman
  Liman, Azerbaijan
  Liman is a city and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 12,100. The municipality consists of the city of Liman and the nearby villages of Şirinsu and Qumbaşı....
  
   (1999)
• Prishib → Göytəpə
• Qutqaşen → Qəbələ (1991)
• Şəki → Nuxa (1840) → Şəki (1968)
• Şəmkir → Şamxor → Şəmkir
  Shamkir
  Shamkir is a rayon in Azerbaijan. It is located in the northwestern part of the Azerbaijan Republic. The rayon was previously called "Shamkhor" during the Soviet rule and was renamed to Shamkir only in 1991 after restoration of independence of Azerbaijan. The district was established in 1930...
  
   (1991)
• Tərtər → Mir-Bəşir (1949) → Tərtər (1991)
• Traubenfeld → Vinogradnoe Pole → Tovuz
  Tovuz, Azerbaijan
  Tovuz is the capital of Tovuz in Azerbaijan.-History:The city takes its name from the turkic Oghuz tribe....
  
  
• Vartaşen → Oğuz
  Oguz
  Oghuz is a rayon of Azerbaijan. The population of the region consisted of Azerbaijanis....
  
   (1991)
• Xankəndi → Stepanakert
  Stepanakert
  Stepanakert is the largest city and capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, a de facto independent republic, though is internationally recognized as a part of Azerbaijan...
  
   (1923) → Xankəndi (1991, change not recognized by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
  Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
  The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic , or Artsakh Republic is a de facto independent republic located in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia...
  
   which controls this city)
• Yelizavetinka → Lüksemburq → Ağstafa
  Agstafa
  -Overview:Agstafa raion was created on 24 January 1939 as an independent administrative unit out of larger Qazakh region of Azerbaijan. On 4 December 1959, the status of the raion was abolished and it was incorporated into Qazakh Rayon...
  
   (1939)
• Yeni Şamaxı → Ağsu
  Agsu (city)
  Agsu is a city in and capital of the Agsu Rayon of Azerbaijan.- History :A. A. Bakikhanov noted that Nadir Shah issued an order for resettlement of the inhabitants of Shamakhi to new laid down city on the bank of Agsu River, in 1735.At present, the name of Agsu city is shown as New...
  
  
• Zubovka → Əli-Bayramlı
  Ali Bayramli
  Shirvan -Climate:The summer months are typically dry and very hot due Shirvan's semi-desert climate, temperature column could be risen to 44 °C often resulting in moderate drought conditions...
  
   (1938) → Şirvan (2008)
• Pirçivan → Zəngilan (1957)

See List of renamed cities in Belarus

• Mien'sk (Мѣньскъ) (historical ruthenian name) → Mińsk Litewski (polish name) → Minsk (Минск) (Russian name since 19th century as transcribed from Polish) → Minsk (Мінск)/Miensk (Менск) (informal)
• Berestie (Берестье) (historical ruthenian name) → Brześć Litewski (polish name) → Brest-Litovsk (Брест-Литовск) (Russian name since 19th century as transcribed from Polish*) → Brest (Брест) (*) → Brest (Брэст)/Bierascie (Берасце) (informal)
• Horodno (Городно) (historical ruthenian name) → Grodno (polish name) → Grodno (Гродно) (Russian name since 19th century as transcribed from Polish) → Hrodna (Гродна)/Harodnia (Гародня) (informal)
• Novohorodok (Новогородокъ) (historical ruthenian name) → Nowogródek (polish name) → Novogrudok (Новогрудок) (Russian name since 19th century as transcribed from Polish) → Navahrudak (Навагрудак)/Navaharodak (Навагародак) (informal)/Navahradak (Наваградак) (informal)
• Mery, Myory (Меры) (historical ruthenian name) → Miory (polish name) → Miory (Миоры) (Russian name since 19th century as transcribed from Polish) → Mijory (Міёры)/Miory (Мёры) (informal)

• Aduatuca → Tongeren
• Cortoriacum → Kortrijk
  Kortrijk
  Kortrijk ; , ; ) is a Belgian city and municipality located in the Flemish province West Flanders...
  
   (Courtrai)
• Gandava → Ghent
  Ghent
  Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
  
  
• Orolaunum → Arlon
• Turnacum Nerviorum → Tournai
  Tournai
  Tournai is a Walloon city and municipality of Belgium located 85 kilometres southwest of Brussels, on the river Scheldt, in the province of Hainaut....
  
  

• Bosanska Gradiška → Gradiška → Bosanska Gradiška
• Drvar
  Drvar
  Drvar is a town and municipality in western Bosnia and Herzegovina, located on the road between Bosansko Grahovo and Bosanski Petrovac, also near Glamoč. It is administratively part of Canton 10 of the Federation....
  
   → Titov Drvar (1981) → Drvar (1991)
• Hvoča → Foča → Srbinje → Foča
  Foca
  Foča is a town and municipality in southeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Drina river, in the Foča Region of the Republika Srpska entity.-Early history:...
  
  

• Adolfo Konder → Vidal Ramos
  Vidal Ramos
  Vidal Ramos is a town and municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.-References:...
  
  
• Hamônia → Ibirama
  Ibirama
  Ibirama is a town and municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.-References:...
  
  
• Hansa Humboldt → Corupá
  Corupá
  Corupá is a town and municipality of the state of Santa Catarina, located in the South Region of Brazil. It has approximately 13,000 inhabitants distributed over 407 km². It is located in the Valley Itapocu near Joinville. Its economy is based on the metallurgical industry and in the...
  
  
• Jabaeté → Viana
  Viana, Espírito Santo
  Viana is a town and municipality in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. It is located 18km southwest of Vitória on the road to Minas Gerais. Its population was 59,458 and its area is 312 km². Though it is part of the Greater Vitória metropolitan area, it still maintains a much more laid-back...
  
  
• Neu-Zürich → Dalbérgia → Neu Breslau → Presidente Getúlio
  Presidente Getúlio
  Presidente Getúlio is a town and municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.-References:...
  
  
• Nossa Senhora do Desterro → Florianópolis
  Florianópolis
  -Climate:Florianópolis experiences a warm humid subtropical climate, falling just short of a true tropical climate. The seasons of the year are distinct, with a well-defined summer and winter, and characteristic weather for autumn and spring. Frost is infrequent, but occurs occasionally in the winter...
  
  
• Nova Danzig → Cambé
  Cambé
  Cambé is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.-References:...
  
  
• Paraíba → João Pessoa
  João Pessoa
  João Pessoa , is the capital city of the state of Paraíba, was founded in 1585 and sometimes called the city where the sun rises first, is a Brazilian city and the easternmost city in the Americas at 34º47'38"W, 7º9'28"S. Local residents call its easternmost point Ponta do Seixas. It is also...
  
  
• Porto Acre → Xapuri
  Xapuri
  Xapuri is a municipality located in the southeast of the Brazilian state of Acre. Its population is 14 314 and its area is 5,251 km² and it is also known under the nickname "City of Chico Mendes"...
  
  
• Porto dos Casais → Porto Alegre
  Porto Alegre
  Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...
  
  
• São José da Barra do Rio Negro → Manaus
  Manaus
  Manaus is a city in Brazil, the capital of the state of Amazonas. It is situated at the confluence of the Negro and Solimões rivers. It is the most populous city of Amazonas, according to the statistics of Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, and is a popular ecotourist destination....
  
  
• São José del Rey → Tiradentes
  Tiradentes, Minas Gerais
  Tiradentes is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. It is located at , has an area of 83.5 km², and a maximum height of 927 m. Tiradentes had an estimated population of 6,364, as of 2004. The original village was established in 1702 and become a city on 19 January 1718....
  
  
• Veado → Siqueira Campos → Guaçuí
• Vila do Espírito Santo → Vila Velha
  Vila Velha
  Vila Velha is a coastal town in Espírito Santo, Brazil. It lies across from Vitória, the state capital. Its population was 396,323 and its area is 208.82 km².Vila Velha forms part of the Greater Vitória metropolitan area...
  
  
• Vila Nova do Espírito Santo → Vitória
• Vila Rica → Ouro Preto
  Ouro Preto
  -History:Founded at the end of the 17th century, Ouro Preto was originally called Vila Rica, or "rich village," the focal point of the gold rush and Brazil's golden age in the 18th century under Portuguese rule....
  
  

• Brunei Town (Bandar Brunei) → Bandar Seri Begawan
  Bandar Seri Begawan
  Bandar Seri Begawan, with an estimated population 140,000 , is the capital and largest city of the Sultanate of Brunei...
  
   (1970)
• Brooketon → Muara
  Muara, Brunei
  Muara is a town in the Brunei and Muara district, Brunei. It contains the country's only deep-water port. Muara is the Malay word for estuary.-Location:...
  
  
• Padang Berawa → Seria
  Seria
  Seria is a town in the Belait District of Brunei Darussalam. Its full name is Pekan Seria in full . Seria was originally known as Padang Berawa which is Wild Pigeon's Field in Malay. The name "Seria" comes from the river located very near where oil was first discovered in the area in 1929...
  
  

• Agatopolis → Ahtabolu → Ahtopol
  Ahtopol
  Ahtopol is a town and seaside resort on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is located on a headland in the southeastern part of Burgas Province and is close to the border with European Turkey...
  
  
• Ratiaria
  Ratiaria
  Ratiaria was a city founded by Moesi, a Daco-Thracian tribe, in 4th century BC, along the river Danube. The city had a gold mine in the vicinity, which was exploited by the Thracians.It is located 2 km west of present village Archar in Vidin Province, northwestern Bulgaria...
  
   → Archar
• Scaptopara → Cuma-i Bala (Yukarı Cuma) → Gorna Dzhumaya → Blagoevgrad
  Blagoevgrad
  Blagoevgrad is а city in southwestern Bulgaria, the administrative centre of Blagoevgrad Province, with a population of about 74,302 . It lies on the banks of the Blagoevgradska Bistritsa River....
  
  
• Orhanie → Botevgrad
  Botevgrad
  Botevgrad ; pre-1866: Samundzhievo ), is a town in western Bulgaria. It is located in Sofia Province and is close to Pravets. Botevgrad is situated at a 47-km-distance from Sofia.-Geography:...
  
  
• Scaphida → Pyrgos → Burgaz → Burgas
  Burgas
  -History:During the rule of the Ancient Romans, near Burgas, Debeltum was established as a military colony for veterans by Vespasian. In the Middle Ages, a small fortress called Pyrgos was erected where Burgas is today and was most probably used as a watchtower...
  
  
• Hadzhioglu Pazardzhik → Tolbuhin → Dobrich
  Dobrich
  Dobrich is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, the administrative centre of Dobrich Province. With 91,030 inhabitants, as of February 2011, Dobrich is the ninth most populated town in Bulgaria, being the centre of the historical region of Southern Dobruja...
  
  
• Diranava → Dryanovo
  Dryanovo
  The town of Dryanovo is situated at the northern foot of the Balkan Mountains in Gabrovo Province, Bulgaria, amphitheatrically along the two banks of Dryanovo River, a tributary to the Yantra River. The town is a centre of the homonymous Dryanovo Municipality, which is composed of 62 villages,...
  
  
• Dupniche → Marek → Stanke Dimitrov → Dupnitsa
• Nevrokop → Gotse Delchev
  Gotse Delchev
  Georgi Nikolov Delchev was an important revolutionary figure in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace at the turn of the 20th century...
  
  
• Ortaköy → Ivailovgrad
• Pautalia → Velbazhd → Köstendil → Kyustendil
  Kyustendil
  Kyustendil is a town in the far west of Bulgaria, the capital of Kyustendil Province, with a population of 44 416 . Kyustendil is situated in the southern part of the Kyustendil Valley, 90 km southwest of Sofia...
  
  
• Golyama Kutlovitsa → Kutlofça → Ferdinand → Mihailovgrad → Montana
  Montana, Bulgaria
  - Elite High Scools :*Foreign Language HS "Petar Bogdan". Emphasis on English and German language proficiency. Recognized and praised for its scholars' academic accomplishments worldwide. http://gpchemont.com/sitegpche/...
  
  
• Mesembria → Misivri→ Nesebar
  Nesebar
  Nesebar is an ancient town and one of the major seaside resorts on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, located in Burgas Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Nesebar Municipality...
  
  
• Tatar Pazardzhik → Pazardzhik
  Pazardzhik
  Pazardzhik is a city situated along the banks of the Maritsa river, Southern Bulgaria. It is the capital of Pazardzhik Province and centre for the homonymous Pazardzhik Municipality...
  
  
• Plevne → Pleven
  Pleven
  Pleven is the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria. Located in the northern part of the country, it is the administrative centre of Pleven Province, as well as of the subordinate Pleven municipality...
  
  
• Kendros (Kendrisos/Kendrisia) → Odryssa → Eumolpia → Philipopolis → Trimontium → Ulpia → Flavia → Julia → Paldin/Ploudin → Poulpoudeva → Filibe → Plovdiv
  Plovdiv
  Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia with a population of 338,153 inhabitants according to Census 2011. Plovdiv's history spans some 6,000 years, with traces of a Neolithic settlement dating to roughly 4000 BC; it is one of the oldest cities in Europe...
  
  
• Ruschuk (Rusčuk) → Rousse
  Rousse
  Ruse is the fifth-largest city in Bulgaria. Ruse is situated in the northeastern part of the country, on the right bank of the Danube, opposite the Romanian city of Giurgiu, from the capital Sofia and from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast...
  
  
• Kolarovgrad → Şumnu → Shumen
  Shumen
  Shumen is the tenth-largest city in Bulgaria and capital of Shumen Province. In the period 1950–1965 it was called Kolarovgrad, after the name of the communist leader Vasil Kolarov...
  
  
• Durostorum → Dorostol → Drastar → Silistre → Silistra
  Silistra
  Silistra is a port city of northeastern Bulgaria, lying on the southern bank of the lower Danube at the country's border with Romania. Silistra is the administrative centre of Silistra Province and one of the important cities of the historical region of Southern Dobrudzha...
  
  
• Bashmakli → Ahiçelebi → Smolyan
  Smolyan
  Smolyan is a town and ski resort in the very south of Bulgaria not far from the border with Greece. It is the administrative and industrial centre of the homonymous Smolyan Province...
  
  
• Serdica → Sredets → Triaditsa → Sofya →Sofia
  Sofia
  Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
  
  
• Apolonia → Sozopolis → Süzebolu→ Sozopol
  Sozopol
  Sozopol is an ancient seaside town located 35 km south of Burgas on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. Today it is one of the major seaside resorts in the country, known for the Apollonia art and film festival that is named after one of the town's ancient names.The busiest times of the year...
  
  
• Beroe → Vereya (Beroya) → Ulpia Augusta Trajana → Irinopolis → Boruy → Vereya → Eski Zağra → Zheleznik → Stara Zagora
  Stara Zagora
  Stara Zagora is the sixth largest city in Bulgaria, and a nationally important economic center. Located in Southern Bulgaria, it is the administrative capital of the homonymous Stara Zagora Province...
  
  
• Eski Dzhumaia (Eski Cuma) → Targovishte
  Targovishte
  Targovishte is a city in Bulgaria, capital of Targovishte Province. It is situated at the northern foot of the low mountain of Preslav on both banks of the Vrana River. The town is 335 km away to the north-east from the capital Sofia and about 125 km to the west from the city of Varna...
  
  
• Vassiliko → Tsarevo → Michurin → Tsarevo
  Tsarevo
  Tsarevo is a town and seaside resort in southeastern Bulgaria, an administrative centre of the homonymous Municipality of Tsarevo in Burgas Province. It lies on a cove 70 km southeast of Burgas, on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast at the eastern foot of Strandzha mountain...
  
  
• Odesos → Varna
  Varna
  Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...
  
   → Stalin → Varna
  Varna
  Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...
  
  
• Tarnovgrad → Tarnovo → Tırnova → Tarnovo → Veliko Tarnovo
  Veliko Tarnovo
  Veliko Tarnovo is a city in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province. Often referred to as the "City of the Tsars", Veliko Tarnovo is located on the Yantra River and is famous as the historical capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, attracting many tourists...
  
  
• Bononia → Bdin → Vidin
  Vidin
  Vidin is a port town on the southern bank of the Danube in northwestern Bulgaria. It is close to the borders with Serbia and Romania, and is also the administrative centre of Vidin Province, as well as of the Metropolitan of Vidin...
  
  
• Vratitsa → Ivraca→ Vratsa
  Vratsa
  Vratsa is a city in northwestern Bulgaria, at the foothills of the Balkan Mountains. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Vratsa Province. As of February 2011, the town has a population of 60,482 inhabitants....
  
  

British Columbia

• Fort George → Prince George
  Prince George, British Columbia
  Prince George, with a population of 71,030 , is the largest city in northern British Columbia, Canada, and is known as "BC's Northern Capital"...
  
  
• Fort Camosun → Fort Victoria → Victoria
  Victoria, British Columbia
  Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...
  
  
• Westbank → West Kelowna
• Wu'muthkweyum → Vancouver
  Vancouver
  Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
  
  
• ch’átlich → Sechelt

New Brunswick

• Fort LaTour → Saint John
  Saint John, New Brunswick
  City of Saint John , or commonly Saint John, is the largest city in the province of New Brunswick, and the first incorporated city in Canada. The city is situated along the north shore of the Bay of Fundy at the mouth of the Saint John River. In 2006 the city proper had a population of 74,043...
  
  
• Léger Corner → Dieppe
  Dieppe, New Brunswick
  Dieppe is a Canadian city in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.-Geography:Dieppe is located on the Petitcodiac River east of the adjacent city of Moncton...
  
  
• Ste. Anne's Point → Fredericton
  Fredericton, New Brunswick
  Fredericton is the capital of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, by virtue of the provincial parliament which sits there. An important cultural, artistic, and educational centre for the province, Fredericton is home to two universities and cultural institutions such as the Beaverbrook Art...
  
  

Ontario

• Bytown → Ottawa
  Ottawa
  Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
  
  
• Ebytown → Berlin → Kitchener
  Kitchener, Ontario
  The City of Kitchener is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It was the Town of Berlin from 1854 until 1912 and the City of Berlin from 1912 until 1916. The city had a population of 204,668 in the Canada 2006 Census...
  
   (see Berlin to Kitchener name change
  Berlin to Kitchener name change
  Through the latter half of the 19th century and into the first decade of the 20th, the City of Berlin, Ontario, Canada, was a bustling industrial centre celebrating its German heritage...
  
  )
• Fort Frontenac → Kingston
  Kingston, Ontario
  Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...
  
  
• Newark → Niagara-on-the-Lake
  Niagara-on-the-Lake
  Niagara-on-the-Lake is a Canadian town located in Southern Ontario where the Niagara River meets Lake Ontario in the Niagara Region of the southern part of the province of Ontario. It is located across the Niagara river from Youngstown, New York, USA...
  
  
• New Johnstown → Cornwall
  Cornwall, Ontario
  Cornwall is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada and the seat of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario. Cornwall is Ontario's easternmost city, located on the St...
  
  
• Rat Portage → Kenora
• Sainte-Anne-des-Pins → Sudbury → Greater Sudbury
• Shipman's Corners → St. Catharines
• Fort Rouillé → Toronto → York → Toronto
  Toronto
  Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
  
  
• Aqueduct → Merritsville → Welland
  Welland, Ontario
  Welland is a city in the Regional Municipality of Niagara in Southern Ontario, Canada.The city has been traditionally known as the place where rails and water meet, referring to the railways from Buffalo to Toronto and Southwestern Ontario, and the waterways of Welland Canal and Welland River,...
  
  

• Faya → Largeau → Faya-Largeau
  Faya-Largeau
  Located in the Sahara, Faya's climate is classed as hot desert on the Köppen climate classification. It experiences hot winters and very hot summers with the peak average maximum temperature reaching in May and the average minimum reaching its lowest in January at . Rainfall averages out at about...
  
   → Faya (proposed)
• Fort Archambault → Sarh
  Sarh
  Sarh is the third largest city in Chad, after N'Djamena and Moundou. It is the capital of Moyen-Chari region and the department of Barh Köh. It lies 350 miles south-east of the capital Ndjamena on the Chari River...
  
  
• Fort-Foureau → Kousséri
  Kousséri
  Kousséri is a city in Far North Province, Cameroon, lying on the border with Chad, across the Chari River from N'Djamena. It is the capital of the Logone-et-Chari department. It is a market town, and its population has recently been swollen by refugees from Chad. It had a population of 89,123 at...
  
  
• Fort Lamy → N'Djamena
  N'Djamena
  N'Djamena is the capital and largest city of Chad. A port on the Chari River, near the confluence with the Logone River, it directly faces the Cameroonian town of Kousséri, to which the city is connected by a bridge. It is also a special statute region, divided in 10 arrondissements. It is a...
  
  

• Amoy† → Hsia-men → Xiamen
  Xiamen
  Xiamen , also known as Amoy , is a major city on the southeast coast of the People's Republic of China. It is administered as a sub-provincial city of Fujian province with an area of and population of 3.53 million...
  
  
• Ji → Yanjing → Zhongdu → Dadu → Jingshi → Khanbalik (as Mongol capital) → Peking † → Peiping → Beijing
  Beijing
  Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
  
  
• Canton† → Guangzhou
  Guangzhou
  Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...
  
  
• Chang'an → Xi'an
  Xi'an
  Xi'an is the capital of the Shaanxi province, and a sub-provincial city in the People's Republic of China. One of the oldest cities in China, with more than 3,100 years of history, the city was known as Chang'an before the Ming Dynasty...
  
  
• Chinchow† → Jinzhou
  Jinzhou
  Jinzhou , is a prefecture-level city of Liaoning province, China. It is a geographically strategic city located in the "Liaoxi Corridor" , which connects land transportation between North China and Northeast China. Jinzhou is China's northernmost seaport and the coastal economic center of West...
  
  
• Chungking† → Chongqing
  Chongqing
  Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...
  
  
• Jinling → Nanking† → Nanjing
  Nanjing
  ' is the capital of Jiangsu province in China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions...
  
  
• Kirin† → Jilin
  Jilin City
  Jilin City is the second largest city of Jilin province in Northeast China. At the 2010 census, 4,414,681 people resided within its administrative area of and 1,975,803 in its built up area...
  
  
• Bianliang → Bianjing → Kaifeng
  Kaifeng
  Kaifeng , known previously by several names , is a prefecture-level city in east-central Henan province, Central China. Nearly 5 million people live in the metropolitan area...
  
  
• Lin'an → Hangchow† → Hangzhou
  Hangzhou
  Hangzhou , formerly transliterated as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. Governed as a sub-provincial city, and as of 2010, its entire administrative division or prefecture had a registered population of 8.7 million people...
  
  
• Soochow† - Suzhou
  Suzhou
  Suzhou , previously transliterated as Su-chou, Suchow, and Soochow, is a major city located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province in Eastern China, located adjacent to Shanghai Municipality. The city is situated on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Taihu Lake and is a part...
  
  
• Yinxu → Anyang
  Anyang
  Anyang is a prefecture-level city in Henan province, People's Republic of China. The northernmost city in Henan, Anyang borders Puyang to the east, Hebi and Xinxiang to the south, and the provinces of Shanxi and Hebei to its west and north respectively....
  
  
• Tan-tung† → Andong → Dandong
  Dandong
  Dandong , previously known as Andong and Antung, is a city in Liaoning Province, Northeast China. It lies on the border between China and North Korea, which is marked by the Yalu River, and is the largest border city in China. Also, to the southwest of the city, the river flows into Korea Bay...
  
  
• Tientsin† → Tianjin
  Tianjin
  ' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...
  
  
• Shenyang → Shengjing → Fengtianfu → Mukden → Fengtian → Shenyang
  Shenyang
  Shenyang , or Mukden , is the capital and largest city of Liaoning Province in Northeast China. Currently holding sub-provincial administrative status, the city was once known as Shengjing or Fengtianfu...
  
  
• Ch'ing-ni-wa† → Lüshunkou
  Lüshunkou
  Lüshunkou is a district in the municipality of Dalian, Liaoning province, China. Also called Lüshun City or Lüshun Port, it was formerly known as both Port Arthur and Ryojun....
  
   (aka Port Arthur) → Dalnyi → Dairen; Ryojun → Luda → Dalian
  Dalian
  Dalian is a major city and seaport in the south of Liaoning province, Northeast China. It faces Shandong to the south, the Yellow Sea to the east and the Bohai Sea to the west and south. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, Dalian is the southernmost city of Northeast China and China's...
  
  
• Swatow† → Shan-t'ou → Shantou
  Shantou
  Shantou , historically known as Swatow or Suátao, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong province, People's Republic of China, with a total population of 5,391,028 as of 2010 and an administrative area of...
  
  
• Tsinan† → Chi-nan → Jinan
  Jinan
  Jinan is the capital of Shandong province in Eastern China. The area of present-day Jinan has played an important role in the history of the region from the earliest beginnings of civilisation and has evolved into a major national administrative, economic, and transportation hub...
  
  

†Name change in English due to replacement of outdated romanization methods such as the Chinese Postal Map Romanization method with the Pinyin

Pinyin

Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...

 method. Chinese name unchanged.

• Bacatá → Santa Fe de Bacatá → Bogotá → Santa Fe de Bogotá → Bogotá
  Bogotá
  Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
  
  
• Obando → Puerto Inírida → Inirida
• Patriarca San José → Cúcuta → San José de Cucúta → Cúcuta
  Cúcuta
  Cúcuta is a Colombian city, capital of Norte de Santander, in the northeast of the country. Due to its proximity to the Colombian-Venezuelan border, Cúcuta is an important commercial center. The city has the constitutional category of Special District. It is located at the most active...
  
  
• Valle de Upar → Ciudad de los Santos Reyes de Valledupar → Valle Dupar → Valledupar
  Valledupar
  Valledupar is a city and municipality in northeastern Colombia. It is the capital of Cesar Department and was founded in 1550 by the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Santana. Its name, Valle de Upar , was established in honor of the Amerindian cacique who ruled the valley; Cacique Upar...
  
  
• Nuestra Señora Santa María de los Remedios del Cabo de la Vela
  Cabo de la Vela
  Cabo de la Vela is a headland in the Guajira Peninsula in Colombia with an adjacent small fishing village. It is a popular ecotourism destination of the Caribbean Region of Colombia-History:...
  
   → Nuestra Señora de los Remedios del Río de la Hacha → Riohacha
  Riohacha
  Riohacha, Rio Hacha or Rio de la Hacha , is a city in the Riohacha Municipality in the northern Caribbean Region of Colombia by the mouth of the Ranchería River and the Caribbean sea, capital city of the La Guajira Department. Founded by conquistador Nikolaus Federmann in 1535, Riohacha was named...
  
  
• Barbudo → Santiago de Sompayón → Tamalameque → Santiago de Sompayón Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de El Banco → El Banco
  El Banco
  El Banco is a Colombian Municipality and town located in the southern most part of the Department of Magdalena by the Magdalena River.-External links:...
  
  
• San Jerónimo de Buenavista → Pereira
  Pereira, Colombia
  Pereira is the capital city of the Colombian department of Risaralda. It stands in the center of the western region of the country, located in a small valley that descends from a part of the western Andes mountain chain. Its strategic location in the coffee producing area makes the city an urban...
  
  
• Apiay → Villavicencio
  Villavicencio
  Villavicencio is a city and municipality in Colombia, capital of the Department of Meta, with 361,058 inhabitants. The city is located at 4°08S, 73°40W, 75 km southeast of the Colombian capital city of Bogotá by the Guatiquía river...
  
  
• Pueblo Viejo →San Francisco de Quibdó → Quibdó
  Quibdó
  Quibdó is the capital city of Chocó Department, in western Colombia. The municipality of Quibdó has an area of 3,337.5 km² and a population of 100,000 mainly consisting of Afro Colombians and Zambo Colombians. Quibdo serves a a receptor for those persons affected by the Colombian armed...
  
  
• San Bonifacio de Ibagué del valle de las Lanzas → Ibagué
  Ibagué
  Ibagué is the capital of the department of Tolima in Colombia. It is situated 1,285 m above sea level, on the eastern slopes of the Cordillera Central between the Chipalo and Combeima rivers, tributaries of the Coello River...
  
  
• Villaviciosa de la Concepción de la Provincia de Hatunllacta → Villaviciosa de la Concepción de San Juan de los Pastos → San Juan de Pasto
  Pasto
  Pasto, officially San Juan de Pasto, is the capital of the department of Nariño, located in southwest Colombia. The city is located in the "Atriz Valley", on the Andes cordillera, at the foot of the Galeras volcano, at an altitude of 8,290 feet above sea level...
  
  
• San Antonio → Leticia
• Santa Cruz de Pizarro → Santa Cruz de San José → Sitionuevo → Sitio Nuevo
• Villa Holguín→ Armenia
  Armenia, Colombia
  Armenia is the capital of Quindío, a department in Colombia. The city is located at coordinates 4.5170° north, 75.6830° west, 290 kilometers west of Bogotá. Armenia is a mid-size city located between Bogotá, Medellín and Cali, the 3 largest Colombian cities. The city's area code for phone calls is...
  
  

A number of places became cities under a Belgian colonial name, or rather two: in Dutch and French (the Belgian official languages), but were later renamed, such as:

• Albertstad = Albertville
  Albertville
  Albertville is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.The town is best known for hosting the 1992 Winter Olympics.-Geography:...
  
   → Kalemie
  Kalemie
  Kalemie, formerly Albertville/Albertstad, is a town on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The town is next to the exit of the Lukuga River flowing out from Lake Tanganyika to the Lualaba River....
  
  
• Coquilhatstad = Coquihatville → Mbandaka
  Mbandaka
  Mbandaka, formerly known as Coquilhatville or Coquilhatstad , is a city on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying near the confluence of the Congo and Ruki Rivers. The capital of the Equateur District, it is home to an airport and is linked by ferry to Kinshasa and Boende...
  
  
• Costermansstad = Costermansville → Bukavu
  Bukavu
  Bukavu is a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo , lying at the extreme south-eastern extent of Lake Kivu, west of Cyangugu in Rwanda, and separated from it by the outlet of the Ruzizi River. It is the capital of the Sud-Kivu province and as of 2009 it had an estimated population of...
  
  
• Elisabethstad = Elisabethville → Lubumbashi
  Lubumbashi
  Lubumbashi is the second largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, second only to the nation's capital Kinshasa, and the hub of the southeastern part of the country. The copper-mining city serves as the capital of the relatively prosperous Katanga Province, lying near the Zambian border...
  
  
• Jadotstad = Jadotville → Likasi
  Likasi
  Likasi, formerly known as Jadotville or Jadotstad, is a city in Haut-Katanga Province, in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.-Demographics:Likasi has a population of around 367,000...
  
  
• Leopoldstad = Léopoldville
  Leopoldville
  Leopoldville may refer to:* The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, today known as Kinshasa* SS Leopoldville, a troopship sunk in 1944...
  
   → Kinshasa
  Kinshasa
  Kinshasa is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The city is located on the Congo River....
  
  
• Port Franqui → Ilebo
  Ilebo
  Ilebo, formerly known as Port-Francqui, is a town in Kasaï District in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lying at the highest navigable point of the Kasaï River. As such, it is an important transport hub for ferries to Kinshasa and trains to Lubumbashi....
  
  
• Stanleystad = Stanleyville → Kisangani
  Kisangani
  Kisangani is the capital of Orientale Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the 3rd largest urbanized city in the country and the largest of the cities that lie in the tropical woodlands of the Congo....
  
  

• Agram, Zagrab → Zagreb
  Zagreb
  Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
  
  
• Pinguente → Buzet
  Buzet
  Buzet is a town in Istria, Croatia, population 6,059 . Already at the time of Venetian rule, Buzet supplied military stations and the local population with potable water. Today the region of Buze-stina is the central area of the future Native Park of Istria...
  
  
• Iader → Jadera → Zara → Zadar
  Zadar
  Zadar is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. It is the centre of Zadar county and the wider northern Dalmatian region. Population of the city is 75,082 citizens...
  
  
• Albona → Labin
  Labin
  Labin is a town in Istria, Croatia, with a town population of 6,884 and 11,703 in the greater municipality ....
  
  
• Mursa → Essegg, Eszék → Osijek
  Osijek
  Osijek is the fourth largest city in Croatia with a population of 83,496 in 2011. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja county...
  
  
• Cittanova → Novigrad
• Parenzo → Poreč
  Porec
  Poreč is a town and municipality on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula, in Istria County, Croatia. Its major landmark is the 6th century Euphrasian Basilica, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997....
  
  
• Pola → Pula
  Pula
  Pula is the largest city in Istria County, Croatia, situated at the southern tip of the Istria peninsula, with a population of 62,080 .Like the rest of the region, it is known for its mild climate, smooth sea, and unspoiled nature. The city has a long tradition of winemaking, fishing,...
  
  
• Ragusa
  Dubrovnik
  Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...
  
   → Dubrovnik
  Dubrovnik
  Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...
  
  
• Rovigno → Rovinj
  Rovinj
  Rovinj is a city in Croatia situated on the north Adriatic Sea with a population of 13,562 . It is located on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula and is a popular tourist resort and an active fishing port...
  
  
• Sankt Veit am Fluß → Fiume → Rijeka
  Rijeka
  Rijeka is the principal seaport and the third largest city in Croatia . It is located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and has a population of 128,735 inhabitants...
  
  
• Spalatum → Spalato → Spljet → Split
  Split (city)
  Split is a Mediterranean city on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, centered around the ancient Roman Palace of the Emperor Diocletian and its wide port bay. With a population of 178,192 citizens, and a metropolitan area numbering up to 467,899, Split is by far the largest Dalmatian city and...
  
  
• Dignano → Vodnjan
  Vodnjan
  -Geography:Vodnjan is situated 10 km north of Pula, on elevation of 135 m. It is located at the intersection of the main road Buje - Pula and the regional road Vodnjan - Fažana, as well as on the railroad Divača - Pula.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Laurana → Lovran
  Lovran
  Lovran is a town in Istria, Croatia. It is situated on the western coast of the Kvarner Bay with a population of 3,241 . Its name derives from Laurel , as shown in the coat of arms....
  
  
• Cirquenizza → Crikvenica
  Crikvenica
  Crikvenica is the largest settlement on the coast of the Vinodol coastal area, Croatia, and grew up on an area which was a settlement in the Roman era called Ad Turres. Population 7,121 , total municipality population 11,348 with 90% Croats...
  
  
• Segnia → Senj
  Senj
  Senj , German Zengg, Hungarian Zeng and Italian Segna) is the oldest town on the upper Adriatic, and it was founded in the time before the Romans some 3000 years ago on the hill Kuk. It was the center of the Illyrian tribe Iapydes. The current settlement is situated at the foot of the slopes Mala...
  
  
• Lussinpiccolo → Mali Lošinj
  Mali Lošinj
  -Mayors:*Hrvoje Lesic - *Mario Hofmann - *Dragan Balija - Alliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar *Gari Capelli - Croatian Democratic Union -References:...
  
  
• Zaravecchia → Biograd na Moru
  Biograd na Moru
  Biograd na Moru is a city and municipality in northern Dalmatia, Croatia and is significant for being the former capital of the medieval Croatian Kingdom. Its population is 6,059 . Biograd is administratively part of the Zadar County...
  
  
• Sebenico → Šibenik
  Šibenik
  Šibenik is a historic town in Croatia, with population of 51,553 . It is located in central Dalmatia where the river Krka flows into the Adriatic Sea...
  
  
• Porto Re → Kraljevica
  Kraljevica
  Kraljevica is a town in the Kvarner region of the country of Croatia, located between Rijeka and Crikvenica, approximately thirty kilometers from Opatija and near the entrance to the bridge to the island of Krk...
  
  
• Pisino → Pazin
  Pazin
  Pazin is the administrative seat of Istria County in Croatia. The town has a population of 4,986 , the total Pazin municipality population is 9,227...
  
  
• Lesina → Hvar
  Hvar
  - Climate :The climate of Hvar is characterized by mild winters and warm summers. The yearly average air temperature is , 686 mm of precipitation fall on the town of Hvar on average every year and the town has a total of 2800 sunshine hours per year. For comparison Hvar has an average of 7.7...
  
  
• Curzola → Korčula
  Korcula
  Korčula is an island in the Adriatic Sea, in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County of Croatia. The island has an area of ; long and on average wide — and lies just off the Dalmatian coast. Its 16,182 inhabitants make it the second most populous Adriatic island after Krk...
  
  
• Cherso → Cres
  Cres
  Cres is an Adriatic island in Croatia. It is one of the northern island in the Kvarner Gulf and can be reached via ferry from the island Krk or from the Istrian peninsula ....
  
  
• Abbazia → Opatija
  Opatija
  Opatija is a town in western Croatia, just southwest of Rijeka on the Adriatic coast. , the town proper had a population of 7,850, with the municipality having a total 12,719 inhabitants.-Geography:...
  
  
• Castelli → Kaštela
  Kaštela
  Kaštela is a series of seven towns in central Dalmatia, located northwest of Split, west of Solin and east of Trogir, in Croatia. They are part of the Split-Dalmatia county and are treated as a single city with a population of 38,474 , although they are individually between 3,000 and 7,000...
  
  
• Castua → Kastav
  Kastav
  Kastav is a historical town located about 10 km northwest of Rijeka and about 5 km northeast of Opatija in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in Croatia.-Demographics:The total population of Kastav is 10,472 ....
  
  
• Comiza → Komiža
  Komiža
  Komiža is a town, harbour and municipality on the western coast of the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea; population of 1677 residents.Komiža is located at the foot of the Hum hill . An average air temperature in January is . Economy is based on farming, winemaking, fishing and fish processing,...
  
  
• Pagu → Pag
  Pag (town)
  Pag is the largest town on the island of Pag, with a population of 3,121 , located at . Whole municipality has a population of 5,100.-History:...
  
  
• Nona → Nin
  Nin, Croatia
  Nin is a town in the Zadar county of Croatia, population 1,256 , total municipality population 4,603 .Nin was historically important as a centre of a Christian Bishopric in the Middle Ages. Up to the abolition and Latinization imposed by King Tomislav in the first half of the 10th century, Nin was...
  
  
• Buccari → Bakar
  Bakar
  Bakar ) is a town in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in western Croatia. The population of the town is 1,566 , while the population of the municipality is 7,773. 90% declare themselves Croats . The old part of Bakar is situated on a hill overlooking the Bay of Bakar...
  
  
• Vodizze → Vodice
  Vodice, Croatia
  Vodice is a town in the Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia. It borders the Adriatic Sea and has a population of 8,902 .-History:Vodice was first mentioned in 1402 although it was founded already in the Roman times as Arausa. Its name derives from the word meaning water sources which supplied the whole...
  
  

• Cukmantl (Zuckmantel) → Zlaté Hory
  Zlaté Hory
  Zlaté Hory is a town in the Jeseník District, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic, on the border with Poland. It has a population of 4,447 . The town was founded in 1224.Administrative parts: Rejvíz, Horní a Dolní Údolí and Ondřejovice...
  
  
• Falknov (Falkenau) → Sokolov
  Sokolov (Sokolov District)
  Sokolov , Falknov nad Ohří until 1948 is a town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic, located to the north-east of Cheb. It has about 28,000 inhabitants....
  
  
• Frývaldov (Freiwaldau) → Jeseník
  Jeseník
  Jeseník , Frývaldov until 1948 is a city and a district in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic.- Districts :* Bukovice * Dětřichov * Jeseník * Lázně Jeseník - History :...
  
  
• Německý Brod (Deutsch Brod) → Havlíčkův Brod
  Havlíckuv Brod
  Havlíčkův Brod , Německý Brod until 1945 is a town in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It is also the capital of the Havlíčkův Brod district. It is located on the Sázava River in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands and has a population of 24,321 as of 2003...
  
  
• Německé Jablonné (Deutsch Gabel) → Jablonné v Podještědí
  Jablonné v Podještedí
  Jablonné v Podještědí is a town in Liberec District, Liberec Region, Czech Republic. It has a population of 3,775 .- External links :...
  
  
• Unterwielands (Cmunt) → České Velenice → Gmünd-Bahnhof (Gmünd III) → České Velenice
  Ceské Velenice
  České Velenice is city in South Bohemian Region of Czech Republic, just on border with Austria, neighbouring Gmünd .-Famous people:*painter Adolf Born was born here...
  
  
• Zlín (Zlin) → Gottwaldov → Zlín
  Zlín
  Zlín , from 1949 to 1989 Gottwaldov , is a city in the Zlín Region, southeastern Moravia, Czech Republic, on the Dřevnice River. The development of the modern city is closely connected to the Bata Shoes company...
  
  
• Budweis → České Budějovice
  Ceské Budejovice
  České Budějovice is a city in the Czech Republic. It is the largest city in the South Bohemian Region and is the political and commercial capital of the region and centre of the Roman Catholic Diocese of České Budějovice and of the University of South Bohemia and the Academy of Sciences...
  
  
• Pilsen → Plzeň
• Karlsbad → Karlovy Vary
  Karlovy Vary
  Karlovy Vary is a spa city situated in western Bohemia, Czech Republic, on the confluence of the rivers Ohře and Teplá, approximately west of Prague . It is named after King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, who founded the city in 1370...
  
  
• Reichenberg → Liberec
  Liberec
  Liberec is a city in the Czech Republic. Located on the Lusatian Neisse and surrounded by the Jizera Mountains and Ještěd-Kozákov Ridge, it is the fifth-largest city in the Czech Republic....
  
  

Greenland

• Friedrichstal → Frederiksdal → Narsarmijit (Narsaq Kujalleq)
• Godthåb → Nuuk
  Nuuk
  Nuuk, is the capital of Greenland, the northernmost capital in North America and the largest city in Greenland. Located in the Nuup Kangerlua fjord, the city lies on the eastern shore of the Labrador Sea and on the west coast of Sermersooq. Nuuk is the largest cultural and economic center in...
  
  
• Lichtenau → Alluitsoq
• Lichtenfels → Akunnat
• Neu-Herrnhut → Ny Herrnhut → Noorlit → Nuuk
  Nuuk
  Nuuk, is the capital of Greenland, the northernmost capital in North America and the largest city in Greenland. Located in the Nuup Kangerlua fjord, the city lies on the eastern shore of the Labrador Sea and on the west coast of Sermersooq. Nuuk is the largest cultural and economic center in...
  
  

Many cities had Ancient Egyptian

Egyptian language

Egyptian is the oldest known indigenous language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Written records of the Egyptian language have been dated from about 3400 BC, making it one of the oldest recorded languages known. Egyptian was spoken until the late 17th century AD in the...

, Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

, and Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

 names

• Syene → Aswan
  Aswan
  Aswan , formerly spelled Assuan, is a city in the south of Egypt, the capital of the Aswan Governorate.It stands on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract and is a busy market and tourist centre...
  
  
• Iunyt, Ta-senet → Latopolis → Laton → Lato → Esna
  Esna
  Esna , known to the ancient Egyptians as Egyptian: Iunyt or Ta-senet; Greek: or or ; Latin: Lato, is a city in Egypt. It is located on the west bank of the River Nile, some 55 km south of Luxor...
  
  

See List of renamed cities in Estonia

• Kuressaare → Kingissepa (1952) → Kuressaare
  Kuressaare
  Kuressaare is a town and a municipality on Saaremaa island in Estonia. It is the capital of Saare County. The current population is about 14,706 Kuressaare is a town and a municipality on Saaremaa island in Estonia. It is the capital of Saare County. The current population is about 14,706...
  
   (1988)
• Reval/Revel → Tallinna (1918) → Tallinn
  Tallinn
  Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 414,940. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list...
  
   (early 1920s)
• Dorpat/Derpt → Jurjev (1893) → Tartu
  Tartu
  Tartu is the second largest city of Estonia. In contrast to Estonia's political and financial capital Tallinn, Tartu is often considered the intellectual and cultural hub, especially since it is home to Estonia's oldest and most renowned university. Situated 186 km southeast of Tallinn, the...
  
   (1918)

Most cities had an ancient name, usually in Latin, often of older Celtic origin

• Agedincum → Sens
  Sens
  Sens is a commune in the Yonne department in Burgundy in north-central France.Sens is a sub-prefecture of the department. It is crossed by the Yonne and the Vanne, which empties into the Yonne here.-History:...
  
  
• Aginnum → Agen
  Agen
  Agen is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in Aquitaine in south-western France. It lies on the river Garonne southeast of Bordeaux. It is the capital of the department.-Economy:The town has a higher level of unemployment than the national average...
  
  
• Andemantunum → Langres
  Langres
  Langres is a commune in north-eastern France. It is a subprefecture of the Haute-Marne département in the Champagne-Ardenne region.-History:As the capital of the Romanized Gallic tribe the Lingones, it was called Andematunnum, then Lingones, and now Langres.The town is built on a limestone...
  
  
• Antipolis → Antibes
  Antibes
  Antibes is a resort town in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.It lies on the Mediterranean in the Côte d'Azur, located between Cannes and Nice. The town of Juan-les-Pins is within the commune of Antibes...
  
  
• Aquae Sextiae → Aix-en-Provence
  Aix-en-Provence
  Aix , or Aix-en-Provence to distinguish it from other cities built over hot springs, is a city-commune in southern France, some north of Marseille. It is in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, in the département of Bouches-du-Rhône, of which it is a subprefecture. The population of Aix is...
  
  
• Arausio → Orange
• Arelate → Arles
  Arles
  Arles is a city and commune in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the former province of Provence....
  
  
• Argentoratum
  Argentoratum
  Argentoratum or Argentorate was the ancient name of the French city of Strasbourg.The Romans under Nero Claudius Drusus established a military outpost belonging to the Germania Superior Roman province close to a Gaulish village near the banks of the Rhine, at the current location of Strasbourg,...
  
   → Strassburg → Strasbourg
  Strasbourg
  Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...
  
  
• Augustobona → Troyes
  Troyes
  Troyes is a commune and the capital of the Aube department in north-central France. It is located on the Seine river about southeast of Paris. Many half-timbered houses survive in the old town...
  
  
• Augustodunum → Autun
  Autun
  Autun is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in Burgundy in eastern France. It was founded during the early Roman Empire as Augustodunum. Autun marks the easternmost extent of the Umayyad campaign in Europe.-Early history:...
  
  
• Augustodurum → Bayeux
  Bayeux
  Bayeux is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France.Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England.-Administration:Bayeux is a sub-prefecture of Calvados...
  
  
• Augustonemetum → Clermont-Ferrand
  Clermont-Ferrand
  Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census. It is the prefecture of the Puy-de-Dôme department...
  
  
• Autessiodurum → Auxerre
  Auxerre
  Auxerre is a commune in the Bourgogne region in north-central France, between Paris and Dijon. It is the capital of the Yonne department.Auxerre's population today is about 45,000...
  
  
• Autricum → Carnotum → Chartres
  Chartres
  Chartres is a commune and capital of the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. It is located southwest of Paris.-Geography:Chartres is built on the left bank of the Eure River, on a hill crowned by its famous cathedral, the spires of which are a landmark in the surrounding country...
  
  
• Avaricum
  Avaricum
  Avaricum was an oppidum in ancient Gaul, near what is now the city of Bourges. Avaricum, situated in the lands of the Bituriges, was the largest and best-fortified town within their territory, situated on very fertile lands...
  
   → Bourges
  Bourges
  Bourges is a city in central France on the Yèvre river. It is the capital of the department of Cher and also was the capital of the former province of Berry.-History:...
  
  
• Avennio → Avignon
  Avignon
  Avignon is a French commune in southeastern France in the départment of the Vaucluse bordered by the left bank of the Rhône river. Of the 94,787 inhabitants of the city on 1 January 2010, 12 000 live in the ancient town centre surrounded by its medieval ramparts.Often referred to as the...
  
  
• Bagacum → Bavai
• Burdigala → Bordeaux
  Bordeaux
  Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...
  
  
• Caesarodunum → Tours
  Tours
  Tours is a city in central France, the capital of the Indre-et-Loire department.It is located on the lower reaches of the river Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. Touraine, the region around Tours, is known for its wines, the alleged perfection of its local spoken French, and for the...
  
  
• Carcaso → Carcassonne
  Carcassonne
  Carcassonne is a fortified French town in the Aude department, of which it is the prefecture, in the former province of Languedoc.It is divided into the fortified Cité de Carcassonne and the more expansive lower city, the ville basse. Carcassone was founded by the Visigoths in the fifth century,...
  
  
• Cenabum
  Cenabum
  Cenabum or Genabum was the name of an oppidum of the Carnutes tribe, situated on the site of what is now Orléans. It was a prosperous commercial city on the Loire River at the time of Caesar's conquest of Gaul.- History :...
  
   → Cenabum Aureliani → Aurelianum → Orléans
  Orléans
  -Prehistory and Roman:Cenabum was a Gallic stronghold, one of the principal towns of the Carnutes tribe where the Druids held their annual assembly. It was conquered and destroyed by Julius Caesar in 52 BC, then rebuilt under the Roman Empire...
  
  
• Cularo
  Cularo
  Cularo was the name of the Gallic city of Grenoble until 381. From this date it will be called Gratianopolis.The first reference to Grenoble dates back to July 43 BC. At that time the market town...
  
   → Gratianopolis → Grenoble
  Grenoble
  Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...
  
  
• Divodurum → Metz
  Metz
  Metz is a city in the northeast of France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.Metz is the capital of the Lorraine region and prefecture of the Moselle department. Located near the tripoint along the junction of France, Germany, and Luxembourg, Metz forms a central place...
  
  
• Divona
  Divona
  In Gallo-Roman religion, Divona or Gaulish Devona is the eponymous goddess of a sacred spring that was the source of fresh water for the city of Burdigala...
  
   → Cahors
  Cahors
  Cahors is the capital of the Lot department in south-western France.Its site is dramatic being contained on three sides within an udder shaped twist in the river Lot known as a 'presqu'île' or peninsula...
  
  
• Durocortorum → Reims
  Reims
  Reims , a city in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, lies east-northeast of Paris. Founded by the Gauls, it became a major city during the period of the Roman Empire....
  
  
• Elimberris → Auch
  Auch
  Auch is a commune in southwestern France. Located in the region of Midi-Pyrénées, it is the capital of the Gers department. Auch is the historical capital of Gascony.-The Ausci:...
  
  
• Forum Iulii → Fréjus
  Fréjus
  Fréjus is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.It neighbours Saint-Raphaël, effectively forming one town...
  
  
• Gesocribate → Brest
  Brest, France
  Brest is a city in the Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France. Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon...
  
  
• Gesoriacum → Bononia → Bonen (aan zee)/ Boulogne-sur-Mer
  Boulogne-sur-Mer
  -Road:* Metropolitan bus services are operated by the TCRB* Coach services to Calais and Dunkerque* A16 motorway-Rail:* The main railway station is Gare de Boulogne-Ville and located in the south of the city....
  
  
• Iluro → Oléron
  Oléron
  Île d'Oléron is an island off the Atlantic coast of France , on the southern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait....
  
  
• Iuliomagus → Angers
  Angers
  Angers is the main city in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France about south-west of Paris. Angers is located in the French region known by its pre-revolutionary, provincial name, Anjou, and its inhabitants are called Angevins....
  
  
• Lapurdum → Bayonne
  Bayonne
  Bayonne is a city and commune in south-western France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture...
  
  
• Limonum → Poitiers
  Poitiers
  Poitiers is a city on the Clain river in west central France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and of the Poitou-Charentes region. The centre is picturesque and its streets are interesting for predominant remains of historical architecture, especially from the Romanesque...
  
  
• Lugdunum
  Lugdunum
  Colonia Copia Claudia Augusta Lugdunum was an important Roman city in Gaul. The city was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus. It served as the capital of the Roman province Gallia Lugdunensis. To 300 years after its foundation Lugdunum was the most important city to the west part of Roman...
  
   → Lyon
  Lyon
  Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
  
  
• Lutetia
  Lutetia
  Lutetia was a town in pre-Roman and Roman Gaul. The Gallo-Roman city was a forerunner of the re-established Merovingian town that is the ancestor of present-day Paris...
  
   → Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
  
• Massilia → Marseille
  Marseille
  Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...
  
  
• Matisco → Mâcon
  Mâcon
  Mâcon is a small city in central France. It is prefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department, in the region of Bourgogne, and the capital of the Mâconnais district. Mâcon is home to over 35,000 residents, called Mâconnais.-Geography:...
  
  
• Mediolanium → Saintes
  Saintes
  Saintes is a French commune located in Poitou-Charentes, in the southwestern Charente-Maritime department of which it is a sub-prefecture. Its inhabitants are called Saintaises and Saintais....
  
  
• Mediolanum Aulercorum
  Mediolanum Aulercorum
  Mediolanum Aulercorum was a Roman town of Northern Gaul, attested in the 4th century AD. The name means "the central town of the Aulerci", the tribe that then inhabited the area; Mediolanum was a small regional center of Normandy, then in the Roman province of Lugdunensis. The name of the modern...
  
   → Évreux
  Évreux
  Évreux is a commune in the Eure department, of which it is the capital, in Haute Normandie in northern France.-History:In late Antiquity, the town, attested in the fourth century CE, was named Mediolanum Aulercorum, "the central town of the Aulerci", the Gallic tribe then inhabiting the area...
  
  
• Metis
  Metz
  Metz is a city in the northeast of France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.Metz is the capital of the Lorraine region and prefecture of the Moselle department. Located near the tripoint along the junction of France, Germany, and Luxembourg, Metz forms a central place...
  
   → Metz
  Metz
  Metz is a city in the northeast of France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.Metz is the capital of the Lorraine region and prefecture of the Moselle department. Located near the tripoint along the junction of France, Germany, and Luxembourg, Metz forms a central place...
  
  
• Narbo Martius → Narbonne
  Narbonne
  Narbonne is a commune in southern France in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. It lies from Paris in the Aude department, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Once a prosperous port, it is now located about from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  
• Nemausus
  Nemausus
  Deus Nemausus is often said to have been the Celtic patron god of Nemausus . The god does not seem to have been worshipped outside of this locality...
  
   → Nîmes
  Nîmes
  Nîmes is the capital of the Gard department in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France. Nîmes has a rich history, dating back to the Roman Empire, and is a popular tourist destination.-History:...
  
  
• Nemetacum → Arras
  Arras
  Arras is the capital of the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. The historic centre of the Artois region, its local speech is characterized as a Picard dialect...
  
  
• Noviodunum Aeduorum → Nevirnum → Nevers
  Nevers
  Nevers is a commune in – and the administrative capital of – the Nièvre department in the Bourgogne region in central France...
  
  
• Portus Namnetum → Nantes
  Nantes
  Nantes is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the 6th largest in France, while its metropolitan area ranks 8th with over 800,000 inhabitants....
  
  
• Rotomagus → Rouen
  Rouen
  Rouen , in northern France on the River Seine, is the capital of the Haute-Normandie region and the historic capital city of Normandy. Once one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe , it was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy in the Middle Ages...
  
  
• Samarobriva
  Samarobriva
  Samarobriva was the name of Amiens during the Gallo-Roman era.-Origin of the name:Its Gallo-Roman name was Samarobriva, meaning in the prior local language « Bridge on the Somme »....
  
   → Amiens
  Amiens
  Amiens is a city and commune in northern France, north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in Picardy...
  
  
• Segodunum → Rodez
  Rodez
  Rodez is a town and commune in southern France, in the Aveyron department, of which it is the capital. Its inhabitants are called Ruthénois.-History:Existing from at least the 5th century BC, Rodez was founded by the Celts...
  
  
• Senones
  Senones
  The Senones were an ancient Gaulish tribe.In about 400 BC they crossed the Alps and, having driven out the Umbrians settled on the east coast of Italy from Forlì to Ancona, in the so-called ager Gallicus, and founded the town of Sena Gallica , which became their capital. In 391 BC they invaded...
  
   → Sens
  Sens
  Sens is a commune in the Yonne department in Burgundy in north-central France.Sens is a sub-prefecture of the department. It is crossed by the Yonne and the Vanne, which empties into the Yonne here.-History:...
  
  
• Strasburg
  Strasbourg
  Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...
  
   → Strasbourg
  Strasbourg
  Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...
  
  
• Tolosa → Toulouse
  Toulouse
  Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  
• Valentia → Valence, Drôme
  Valence, Drôme
  Valence is a commune in southeastern France, the capital of the Drôme department, situated on the left bank of the Rhône, south of Lyon on the railway to Marseilles.Its inhabitants are called Valentinois...
  
  
• Vesontio → Besançon
  Besançon
  Besançon , is the capital and principal city of the Franche-Comté region in eastern France. It had a population of about 237,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2008...
  
  
• Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
   → Vienne
  Vienne
  Vienne is the northernmost département of the Poitou-Charentes region of France, named after the river Vienne.- Viennese history :Vienne is one of the original 83 departments, established on March 4, 1790 during the French Revolution. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Poitou,...
  
  
• Wissemburg → Wissembourg
  Wissembourg
  Wissembourg is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in northeastern France.It is situated on the little River Lauter close to the border between France and Germany approximately north of Strasbourg and west of Karlsruhe. Wissembourg is a sub-prefecture of the department...
  
  

see also List of cities and towns in East Prussia for towns now in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 or Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

• Aquisgranum → Aix La Chapelle → Aachen
  Aachen
  Aachen has historically been a spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen was a favoured residence of Charlemagne, and the place of coronation of the Kings of Germany. Geographically, Aachen is the westernmost town of Germany, located along its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, ...
  
  
• Arckenow → Erkenau → Erkener → Erkner
  Erkner
  -Geography:It is situated on the river Spree, 23 km west of Fürstenwalde, and directly on the border to Berlin-Rahnsdorf....
  
  
• Augusta Treverorum → Trier
  Trier
  Trier, historically called in English Treves is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle. It is the oldest city in Germany, founded in or before 16 BC....
  
  
• Augusta Vindelicorum → Augsburg
  Augsburg
  Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...
  
  
• Aurelia Aquensi → Baden-Baden
  Baden-Baden
  Baden-Baden is a spa town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the western foothills of the Black Forest, on the banks of the Oos River, in the region of Karlsruhe...
  
  
• Barmen-Elberfeld → Wuppertal
  Wuppertal
  Wuppertal is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in and around the Wupper river valley, and is situated east of the city of Düsseldorf and south of the Ruhr area. With a population of approximately 350,000, it is the largest city in the Bergisches Land...
  
  
• Batavis → Passau
  Passau
  Passau is a town in Lower Bavaria, Germany. It is also known as the Dreiflüssestadt or "City of Three Rivers," because the Danube is joined at Passau by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north....
  
  
• Bona → Bonn
  Bonn
  Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
  
  
• Bötzow → Oranienburg
  Oranienburg
  Oranienburg is a town in Brandenburg, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Oberhavel.- Geography :Oranienburg is a town located on the banks of the Havel river, 35 km north of the centre of Berlin.- Division of the town :...
  
  
• Bremerhaven → Wesermünde → Bremerhaven
  Bremerhaven
  Bremerhaven is a city at the seaport of the free city-state of Bremen, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. It forms an enclave in the state of Lower Saxony and is located at the mouth of the River Weser on its eastern bank, opposite the town of Nordenham...
  
  
• Buchhorn → Friedrichshafen
  Friedrichshafen
  This article is about a German town. For the Danish town, see Frederikshavn, and for the Finnish town, see Fredrikshamn .Friedrichshafen is a university city on the northern side of Lake Constance in Southern Germany, near the borders with Switzerland and Austria.It is the district capital of the...
  
  
• Castellum apud Confluentes → Koblenz
  Koblenz
  Koblenz is a German city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the Moselle, where the Deutsches Eck and its monument are situated.As Koblenz was one of the military posts established by Drusus about 8 BC, the...
  
  
• Castra Regina → Regensburg
  Regensburg
  Regensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate...
  
  
• Chemnitz → Karl-Marx-Stadt → Chemnitz
  Chemnitz
  Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Chemnitz is an independent city which is not part of any county and seat of the government region Direktionsbezirk Chemnitz. Located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains, it is a part of the Saxon triangle...
  
  
• Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium
  Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium
  Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium was the name of the Roman colony in the Rhineland out of which the German city of Cologne developed.It was the capital of the Roman province of Germania Inferior and the headquarters of the military in the region. With the administrative reforms under Diocletian,...
  
   → Cologne
  Cologne
  Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
  
   (Köln)
• Colonia Nemetum → Speyer
  Speyer
  Speyer is a city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located beside the river Rhine, Speyer is 25 km south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim. Founded by the Romans, it is one of Germany's oldest cities...
  
  
• Constantia → Konstanz
  Konstanz
  Konstanz is a university city with approximately 80,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the south-west corner of Germany, bordering Switzerland. The city houses the University of Konstanz.-Location:...
  
  
• Everswolde → Neustadt-Eberswalde → Eberswalde-Finow
• Fürstenberg (Oder) → Stalinstadt → Eisenhüttenstadt
  Eisenhüttenstadt
  Eisenhüttenstadt is a town in the Oder-Spree district of Brandenburg, Germany at the border with Poland. The town was founded in 1950 alongside a new steel mill as a socialist model city and has a population of 32,214...
  
  
• Klenow → Ludwigslust
  Ludwigslust
  Ludwigslust is a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, 40 km south of Schwerin. It was the capital of the former district of Ludwigslust, and is part of the district Ludwigslust-Parchim since September 2011.-History:...
  
  
• Lietzow → Lietzenburg → Charlottenburg
  Charlottenburg
  Charlottenburg is a locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, named after Queen consort Sophia Charlotte...
  
  
• Liubice
  Liubice
  Liubice, also known by the German name Alt-Lübeck , was a medieval West Slavic settlement near the site of modern Lübeck, Germany. Liubice was located at the confluence of the Schwartau with the Trave across from Teerhof Island, approximately four kilometres north of Lübeck's island old town...
  
   → Lübeck
  Lübeck
  The Hanseatic City of Lübeck is the second-largest city in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany, and one of the major ports of Germany. It was for several centuries the "capital" of the Hanseatic League and, because of its Brick Gothic architectural heritage, is listed by UNESCO as a World...
  
  
• Lochau → Annaburg
  Annaburg
  Annaburg is a small town in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was the seat of the former Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Annaburg-Prettin.- Constituent communities :Annaburg has two centres, one also called Annaburg, and the other Purzien....
  
  
• Moguntiacum → Mainz
  Mainz
  Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...
  
  → Mayence → Mainz
• Neustadt → Dorotheenstadt (in 1710 incorporated into Berlin)
• Rixdorf → Neukölln
  Neukölln
  Neukölln is the eighth borough of Berlin, located in the southeastern part of the city and was part of the former American sector under the Four-Power occupation of the city...
  
   (in 1920 incorporated
  Greater Berlin Act
  The Greater Berlin Act , in full the Law Regarding the Reconstruction of the New Local Authority of Berlin , was a law passed by the Prussian government in 1920 that greatly expanded the size of the German capital of Berlin.-History:...
  
   into Berlin)
• Sarre-Louis → Sarre-Libre → Saarlouis → Saarlautern → Saarlouis
  Saarlouis
  Saarlouis is a city in the Saarland, Germany, capital of the district of Saarlouis. In 2006, the town had a population of 38,327. Saarlouis, as the name implies, is located at the river Saar....
  
  
• Syburg → Carlshaven → Bad Karlshafen
  Bad Karlshafen
  Bad Karlshafen is a baroque, thermal salt spa town in the district of Kassel, in Hesse, Germany. It has 2300 inhabitants in the main ward of Bad Karlshafen, and a further 1900 in the medieval ward of Helmarshausen...
  
  
• Sorviodurum → Straubing
  Straubing
  Straubing is an independent city in Lower Bavaria, southern Germany. It is seat of the district of Straubing-Bogen. Annually in August the Gäubodenvolksfest, the second largest fair in Bavaria, is held....
  
  
• Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben → Wolfsburg
  Wolfsburg
  Wolfsburg is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on the River Aller northeast of Braunschweig , and is mainly notable as the headquarters of Volkswagen AG...
  
  
• Starigard → Aldinborg → Oldenburg in Holstein
• Vörde → Bremervörde
  Bremervörde
  Bremervörde is a town in the north of the district Rotenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated at the Oste river near the mid of the triangle, which is formed of the rivers Weser and Elbe respectively the cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Cuxhaven....
  
  

See List of renamed cities in Georgia

• Aghbulakhi → Tetritsq'aro
  Tetritsq'aro
  Tetri Tsqaro is a town in Kvemo Kartli in southern Georgia, the name of which translates as "White Spring".- See also :*Gudarekhi...
  
   (1940)
• Baghdati → Maiakovski (1940) → Baghdati
  Baghdati
  Baghdati is a town of 4,800 people in the Imereti region of western Georgia, at the edge of the Ajameti forest on the Chanistskali River. From 1940 to 1990, it was called Mayakovsky after the Russian poet who was born there.-History:...
  
   (1990)
• Barmaksizi → Tsalka
  Tsalka
  - Population :The district had a population of 22,000. According to the 2002 census 55% of its population is Armenian, 22% Greek, 12% Georgian, and 9.5% Azerbaijanis...
  
   (1932)
• Bashkicheti → Dmanisi
  Dmanisi
  Dmanisi is a townlet and archaeological site in Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia approximately 93 km southwest of the nation’s capital Tbilisi in the river valley of Mashavera.- History :...
  
   (1947)
• Altunkale → Bogdanovka (1829) → Ninotsminda
  Ninotsminda
  Ninotsminda is a town and a rayon located in Georgia's southern district of Samtskhe-Javakheti. The rayon has a population of 34,305 according to 2002 Census. The Armenians number 32,856, Georgians 476 and Russians 943...
  
   (1991)
• Dioscurias → Savastapolis → Tskhumi → Sohumkale → Sukhumi
  Sukhumi
  Sukhumi is the capital of Abkhazia, a disputed region on the Black Sea coast. The city suffered heavily during the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict in the early 1990s.-Naming:...
  
  
• Elisabethtal → Asureti (1943)
• Gegechkori → Martvili
  Martvili
  Martvili is a small town in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti province of Western Georgia. Its monastery was Samegrelo's clerical centre in the Middle Ages...
  
   (1990)
• Jugeli → Zestafoni (1921)
• Karaiazi → Gardabani
  Gardabani
  Gardabani is a town in the Georgian region of Kvemo Kartli, and the centre of the Garbabani district, located 39 km south of Georgia's capital Tbilisi.As of 2002, its population was 19,900 people. The town is roughly 70% Azeri-populated...
  
   (1947)
• Khashuri → Mikhailovo (1872) → Khashuri (1918) → Stalinisi (1931) → Khashuri
  Khashuri
  Khashuri is a town in central Georgia. It is located on the Mtkvari River.Khashuri is first mentioned in the 1693 document. Modern Khashuri was founded in 1872 as a modest railway halt called "Mikhaylovo" after Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, Viceroy of the Caucasus. In 1917, it was...
  
   (1934)
• Chörük-Qamarli → Katarinenfeld (1817) → Lüksemburgi (1921) → Bolnisi
  Bolnisi
  Bolnisi , is a city in the country of Georgia, located in the Kvemo Kartli region and capital of the Bolnisi district. Currently has an estimated 13,800 inhabitants....
  
   (1943)
• Kazbegi → Stepantsminda
  Stepantsminda
  Stepantsminda , is a small town in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region of north-eastern Georgia. Historically and ethnographically, the town is part of the Khevi province...
  
   (2006)
• Leningori → Akhalgori
  Akhalgori
  Akhalgori or Leningor is a town in South Ossetia, partially recognized republic in the South Caucasus, formerly the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic...
  
   (1991)
• Makharadze → Ozurgeti
  Ozurgeti
  Ozurgeti is a town and the regional administrative centre of Western Georgian province of Guria, former Macharadze or Makharadze . Population of Ozurgeti: 21,009...
  
   (1990)
• Orjonikidze → Kharagauli
  Kharagauli
  kharagauli is an administrative center of Kharagauli district in Georgia. It is situated on both banks of Chkherimela river in a narrow and deep gorge, 280-400m above the sea level....
  
   (1990)
• Sarvan → Borchalo (1929) → Marneuli
  Marneuli
  Marneuli is a small city in the Kvemo Kartli region of southern Georgia and administrative center of Marneuli District that borders neighboring Azerbaijan and Armenia.-Population:...
  
   (1947)
• Senaki → Mikha-Tskhakaia (1935) → Tskhakaia (1976) → Senaki
  Senaki
  Senaki is a town in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, western Georgia. It is located at around .From 1935 to 1976 it was called Tskhakaya in honor of the Georgian Bolshevik revolutionary leader Mikhail Tskhakaya....
  
   (1989)
• Shulavery → Shahumiani (1925) → Shulaveri (1991)
• Trialeti → Molotovo (1940) → Trialeti
  Trialeti
  Trialeti is a mountainous area in central Georgia. In Georgian its name means "a place of wandering". The Trialeti Range is a part of the greater Trialeti Region....
  
   (1957)
• Tsarskiye Kolodtsy → Tsiteli-Tskaro (1921) → Dedoplis Tskaro
  Dedoplis Tskaro
  Dedoplis Tskaro or Dedoplistsqaro is a town in Kakheti, Georgia with the population of 7,724 . The town is located in the Shiraki Lowlands, eastern Georgia, and functions as a municipality of the district of the same name....
  
   (1991)
• Tskhinvali → Staliniri (1934) → Tskhinvali
  Tskhinvali
  Tskhinvali , is the capital of South Ossetia, a disputed region which has been recognised as an independent Republic by Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Nauru, and is regarded by Georgia and the rest of the world as part of the Shida Kartli region within Georgian sovereign territory.It is located...
  
   (1961)
• Tsulukidze → Khoni
  Khoni
  Khoni is a town in the Western Georgian region of Imereti with the population of 11,300 . It is situated on the left bank of the Tskhenistkali River in the north-west of Imereti, close to the border with the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti and 266 km west of Georgia's capital Tbilisi. The town...
  
   (1990)

• Banitsa → Vevi
  Vevi
  Vevi, rarely Veve is a village located in the municipal unit of Meliti in Florina peripheral unit, Macedonia, Greece. The village is passed by two national roads which lead to Thessaloniki, Florina, Amyntaio, and Kozani...
  
  
• Boimitsa → Axioupoli
  Axioupoli
  Axioupoli , known until 1927 as Boymitsa , is a small town and a former municipality in the former Paionia Province of Kilkis regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Paionia, of which it is a municipal unit...
  
  
• Kailar → Ptolemaida
  Ptolemaida
  Ptolemaida is a town and a former municipality in Kozani peripheral unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Eordaia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit...
  
  
• Khandak → Candia → Heraklion
  Heraklion
  Heraklion, or Heraclion is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete, Greece. It is the 4th largest city in Greece....
  
  
• Lamia → Zitouni → Lamia
  Lamia (city)
  Lamia is a city in central Greece. The city has a continuous history since antiquity, and is today the capital of the regional unit of Phthiotis and of the Central Greece region .-Name:...
  
  

See also: Former toponyms of Greek places

Former toponyms of Greek places

Many settlements in Greece had Greek and non-Greek forms. Most of those names were in use during the multinational environment of the Ottoman Empire. Some of the forms were identifiably of Greek origin, others of Slavic, yet others of Turkish, Vlach or Albanian origin...

 and list compiled by the Institute for Neohellenic Research

• Dunapentele → Sztálinváros (1949) → Dunaújváros
  Dunaújváros
  Dunaújváros is a Hungarian city in Central Transdanubia, along the Danube river. It is in Fejér county.-History:Dunaújváros is one of the newest cities of the country...
  
   (1961)
• Sövényháza → Ópusztaszer
  Ópusztaszer
  Ópusztaszer is a village in Csongrád county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary. It is most known as the location of the National Historical Memorial Park.-Geography:...
  
   (1974)
• Pernyepuszta → Pernyebánya (1945) → Petőfibánya
  Petofibánya
  Petőfibánya is a village in Hungary, Heves county, near Hatvan. It has a population of 3118 .-Geography:...
  
   (1948)
• Tiszaszederkény → Leninváros (1970) → Tiszaújváros
  Tiszaújváros
  Tiszaújváros is an industrial town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary, south-east of Miskolc, near the river Tisza.Tiszaújváros owes its existence to the industrialization wave that took over the then-socialist Hungary after World War II...
  
   (1990)

See List of renamed Indian public places

• Bangalore → Bengaluru
• Madras → Chennai
  Chennai
  Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
  
   (changed August 1996)
• Fort William → Calcutta → Kolkata
  Kolkata
  Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
  
   (January 2001)
• Mumba → Boa Baia → Bombay → Mumbai
  Mumbai
  Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
  
   (1996)
• New Bombay → Navi Mumbai
  Navi Mumbai
  Navi Mumbai is a Planned Satellite City on the west coast of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It was developed in 1972 as a twin city of Mumbai, and is the largest planned city on the planet, with under the jurisdiction of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation and a total area of . Navi Mumbai...
  
  
• Mangalore → Mangluru
• Kanhiyapur → Cawnpore → Kanpur (1948)
• Baroda → Vadodra
• Pataliputra → Patna
  Patna
  Paṭnā , is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar and the second largest city in Eastern India . Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world...
  
  
• Pondicherry → Puducherry
• Poona → Pune
  Pune
  Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...
  
  
• Qila Rai Pithora → Siri → Tughluqabad → Jahanpanah → Kotla Firoz Shah → Purana Qila → Shahjahanabad → Delhi
  Delhi
  Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
  
  
• Trivandrum → Thiruvananthapuram
  Thiruvananthapuram
  Thiruvananthapuram , formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarters of the Thiruvananthapuram District. It is located on the west coast of India near the extreme south of the mainland...
  
  
• Quilon → Kollam
  Kollam
  Kollam , often anglicized as ', is a city in the Indian state of Kerala. The city lies on the banks of Ashtamudi Lake on the Arabian sea coast and is situated about north of the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram...
  
  
• Aleppey → Alappuzha
  Alappuzha
  Alappuzha , also known as Alleppey, is a town in Alappuzha District of Kerala state of southern India. As per 2001 census Alleppey is the sixth largest city in Kerala with an urban population of 177,029. Alleppey is situated to the south of Kochi and north of Trivandrum...
  
  
• Cochin → Kochi
• Calicut → Kozhikode
  Kozhikode
  Kozhikode During Classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, Kozhikkode was dubbed the "City of Spices" for its role as the major trading point of eastern spices. Kozhikode was once the capital of an independent kingdom of the same name and later of the erstwhile Malabar District...
  
  
• Chirayinkil Chirayinkeezhu
  Chirayinkeezhu
  Chirayinkeezhu is a village in Thiruvananthapuram district situated in the Indian state of Kerala.This is the birth place of the Malayalam actors Shri. Prem Nazir and Bharath Gopi.-Places:The Sarkara Devi Temple is situated at Chirayinkeezhu...
  
  
• Kattachakonam → Kesavadasapuram
  Kesavadasapuram
  Kesavadasapuram is a suburb in the Thiruvananthapuram city, Kerala, India. Kesavadasapuram junction is a meeting point of NH 47 and MC Road...
  
  
• Palghat → Palakkad
  Palakkad
  Palakkad , formerly known as Palghat, is a municipality and a town in the state of Kerala in southern India, spread over an area of 26.60 km2.The city is situated about north of state capital Thiruvananthapuram. It is the administrative headquarters of Palakkad District...
  
  
• Thrishivaperur → Trichur → Thrissur
  Thrissur
  This article is about the city in India. For the district, see Thrissur district. For the urban agglomeration area of Thrissur see Thrissur Metropolitan Area...
  
  
• Cannanore → Kannur
  Kannur
  Kannur , also known as Cannanore, is a city in Kannur district in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the administrative headquarters of the District of Kannur and 518km north of state capital Trivandrum. During British rule in India, Kannur was known by its old name Cannanore, which is still in...
  
  
• Indravati → Umravti → Amravati
  Amravati
  Amravati is a city in the state of Maharashtra, India and the seventh most populous metropolitan area in Maharashtra. It is also the administrative headquarters of the Amravati district...
  
  
• Tanjore → Thanjavur
• Lakshmanpuri → Lakhanpur → Lakhnau → Lucknow
  Lucknow
  Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh in India. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....
  
  
• Thirusirappalli → Trichinopoly → Trichy → Tiruchirappalli
• Jeypore → Jaipur
  Jaipur
  Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....
  
  
• Ootacamund → Udhagamandalam
• Mapuça → Mapusa
  Mapusa
  Mapusa also spelt at Mapuca, Mhapsa or Mapsa is a town in North Goa, India. It is situated 13 km north of the capital Panaji. The town is the headquarters of Bardez Taluka. It is located on the main highway NH-17, linking Mumbai to Trivandrum...
  
  
• Panjim → Panaji

• Bandar Aceh Darussalam → Kutaradja → Banda Aceh
  Banda Aceh
  Banda Aceh is the provincial capital and largest city in the province of Aceh, Indonesia, located on the island of Sumatra, with an elevation of 35 meters. The city regency covers an area of 64 square kilometres and according to the 2000 census had a population of 219,070 people...
  
  
• Bangkahulu → Bencoolen → Bengkulu
  Bengkulu
  Bengkulu is a province of Indonesia. It is on the southwest coast of the island of Sumatra, and borders the provinces of West Sumatra, Jambi, South Sumatra and Lampung. The capital and largest city is Bengkulu city. It was formerly the site of a British garrison, which they called Bencoolen...
  
  
• Buitenzorg → Bogor
  Bogor
  Bogor is a city on the island of Java in the West Java province of Indonesia. The city is located in the center of the Bogor Regency , 60 kilometers south of the Indonesian capital Jakarta...
  
  
• Emma Haven → Teluk Bayur
  Teluk Bayur
  Teluk Bayur formerly known as Emma Haven or Emmahaven is a port located in Bayur Bay of Padang city, West Sumatra, Indonesia. The port, the largest and busiest on the western coast of Sumatra, is operated by the government owned company PT. Pelabuhan Indonesia II .-External links:**...
  
  
• Kalapa → Jayakarta → Batavia → Jakarta
  Jakarta
  Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta, it is located on the northwest coast of Java, has an area of , and a population of 9,580,000. Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre...
  
  
• Port Numbay → Hollandia → Kota Baru → Sukarnopura → Jayapura
  Jayapura
  Jayapura City is the capital of Papua province, Indonesia, on the island of New Guinea. It is situated on Yos Sudarso Bay . Its approximate population in 2002 was 200,000....
  
  
• Makasar → Ujungpandang → Makassar
  Makassar
  Makassar, is the provincial capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the largest city on Sulawesi Island. From 1971 to 1999, the city was named Ujung Pandang, after a precolonial fort in the city, and the two names are often used interchangeably...
  
  
• Meester Cornelis → Djatinegara → Jatinegara
  Jatinegara
  Jatinegara is a subdistrict of East Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia. The boundaries of Jatinegara are Bekasi Barat Raya - Bekasi Timur Raya - I...
  
  
• Tanjungkarang-Telukbetung → Bandar Lampung
  Bandar Lampung
  - External links :*...
  
  
• Telanaipura → Jambi

• Ecbatana → Hagmatana → Hamadan
  Hamadan
  -Culture:Hamadan is home to many poets and cultural celebrities. The city is also said to be among the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities.Handicrafts: Hamadan has always been well known for handicrafts like leather, ceramic, and beautiful carpets....
  
  
• Aspadana → Isfahan
• Behdesīr → Kerman
  Kerman
  - Geological characteristics :For the Iranian paleontologists, Kerman has always been considered a fossil paradise. Finding new dinosaur footprints in 2005 has now revealed new hopes for paleontologists to better understand the history of this area.- Economy :...
  
   (10th century A.D.)

• Bagenalstown → Muine Bheag (1932)
• Charleville → Ráth Luirc
  Charleville, County Cork
  Charleville or Ráth Luirc is a town in north County Cork, Ireland, situated in Ireland's Golden Vale, near the border with County Limerick. It is located on the "Glen" tributary river, which flows into the Maigue River in Co. Limerick...
  
   (1920s)
• Cove → Queenstown (1849) → Cobh
  Cobh
  Cobh is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour. Facing the town are Spike Island and Haulbowline Island...
  
   (1922)
• Dún Laoghaire → Kingstown (1821) → Dún Laoghaire
  Dún Laoghaire
  Dún Laoghaire or Dún Laoire , sometimes anglicised as "Dunleary" , is a suburban seaside town in County Dublin, Ireland, about twelve kilometres south of Dublin city centre. It is the county town of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County and a major port of entry from Great Britain...
  
   (1921)
• Maryborough → Portlaoise
  Port Laoise
  Portlaoise or Port Laoise , historically spelled Port Laoighise or Portlaoighise, is the county town of County Laois in the midlands of Ireland. The population was 14,613.-History:...
  
   (1929)
• Newbridge → Droichead Nua
  Newbridge, County Kildare
  The earliest known mention of Newbridge was by traveller and bookseller John Dunton in 1698, though he does not refer to any settlement other than at Ballymany....
  
   (1930s)
• Parsonstown → Birr
  Birr
  Birr is a town in County Offaly, Ireland. Once called Parsonstown, after the Parsons family who were local landowners and hereditary Earls of Rosse. It is also a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe....
  
   (1920s)
• Philipstown → Daingean
  Daingean
  Daingean , formerly Philipstown, is a small town in east County Offaly, Ireland. It is situated midway between the towns of Tullamore and Edenderry on the R402 regional road. The town or townland of Daingean has a population of 777 while the District Electoral Division has a total population of...
  
   (1921)

• Acre → Ptolemais → Acre → Akko/Akka
• Yvus → Yerushalayim → Ilea Capitolina → Al-Quds → Yerushalayim/Al-Quds (Jerusalem)
• Ashkelon → Ascalon (Majdal) → Ashqelon
• Joppa → Jaffa → Tel Aviv-Yafo
• Raanania→ Ra'anana
  Ra'anana
  Ra'anana is a city in the heart of the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel with a population of 68,300, . Ra'anana is bordered by Kfar Sava on the east and Herzliya on the southwest...
  
  

From history, most Italian cities have Latin names, some have Greek or Etruscan names.

• Akragas → Agrigentum → Girgenti → Agrigento
  Agrigento
  Agrigento , is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, and capital of the province of Agrigento. It is renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragas , one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the golden...
  
  
• Beneventum → Benevento
  Benevento
  Benevento is a town and comune of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, 50 km northeast of Naples. It is situated on a hill 130 m above sea-level at the confluence of the Calore Irpino and Sabato...
  
  
• Felsina → Bononia → Bologna
  Bologna
  Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
  
  
• Brundisium → Brindisi
  Brindisi
  Brindisi is a city in the Apulia region of Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, off the coast of the Adriatic Sea.Historically, the city has played an important role in commerce and culture, due to its position on the Italian Peninsula and its natural port on the Adriatic Sea. The city...
  
  
• Carales → Cagliari
  Cagliari
  Cagliari is the capital of the island of Sardinia, a region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name Casteddu literally means castle. It has about 156,000 inhabitants, or about 480,000 including the outlying townships : Elmas, Assemini, Capoterra, Selargius, Sestu, Monserrato, Quartucciu, Quartu...
  
  
• Kroton → Crotona → Crotone
  Crotone
  Crotone is a city and comune in Calabria, southern Italy, on the Ionian Sea. Founded circa 710 BC as the Achaean colony of Croton , it was known as Cotrone from the Middle Ages until 1928, when its name was changed to the current one. In 1994 it became the capital of the newly established...
  
  
• Florentia → Florence
  Florence
  Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
  
   (Firenze)
• Genua → Genoa
  Genoa
  Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
  
   (Genova)
• Lavinium
  Lavinium
  Lavinium was a port city of Latium, to the south of Rome, at a median distance between the Tiber river at Ostia and Anzio. The coastline then, as now, was a long strip of beach. Lavinium was on a hill at the southernmost edge of the Silva Laurentina, a dense laurel forest, and the northernmost...
  
   → Lavinio
  Lavinio
  Lavinio is a small sea side tourist town in the Lazio region of Italy, southwest of Rome. It is part of the municipality of Anzio.-History:...
  
  
• Mediolanum → Milan
  Milan
  Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
  
   (Milano)
• Messana → Messina
• Mutina → Modena
  Modena
  Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....
  
  
• Neapolis → Napolis → Naples
  Naples
  Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
  
   (Napoli)
• Olbia → Terranova Pausania → Olbia
  Olbia
  Olbia is a town and comune of 56,231 inhabitants in northeastern Sardinia , in the Gallura sub-region. Called Olbia in the Roman age, Civita in the Middle Ages and Terranova Pausania before the 1940s, Olbia was again the official name of the town after the period of Fascism.-Geography:It is the...
  
  
• Panormus → Palermo
  Palermo
  Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...
  
  
• Pisae → Pisa
  Pisa
  Pisa is a city in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the River Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa...
  
  
• Rhegium → Reggio di Calabria
• Roma → Colonia Lucia Annia Commodiana
  Commodus
  Commodus , was Roman Emperor from 180 to 192. He also ruled as co-emperor with his father Marcus Aurelius from 177 until his father's death in 180. His name changed throughout his reign; see changes of name for earlier and later forms. His accession as emperor was the first time a son had succeeded...
  
   → Rome
  Rome
  Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
  
   (Roma)
• Syrakusai → Siracusa
• Taras → Tarentum → Taranto
  Taranto
  Taranto is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Taranto and is an important commercial port as well as the main Italian naval base....
  
  
• Vicetia → Vicenza
  Vicenza
  Vicenza , a city in north-eastern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione...
  
  

• Akamagaseki → Shimonoseki
  Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi
  is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It is at the southwestern tip of Honshū, facing the Tsushima Strait and also Kitakyushu across the Kanmon Straits....
  
   (1902)
• Asahi → Owariasahi
  Owariasahi, Aichi
  is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.As of June 30, 2011, the city has an estimated population of 81,517 with 32,588 households and a population density of 3,878.07 persons per km². The total area is 21.02 km². The city was part of Higashikasugai District until December 1, 1970, which...
  
   (1970)
• Edo
  Edo
  , also romanized as Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of the Japanese capital Tokyo, and was the seat of power for the Tokugawa shogunate which ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868...
  
   → Tokyo
  Tokyo
  , ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
  
   (1868)
• Fuchū → Shizuoka
  Shizuoka, Shizuoka
  is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the prefecture's second-largest city in terms of both population and area. It became one of Japan's 19 "designated cities" in 2005.-Geography:...
  
   (1869)
• Fukase → Matsumoto
  Matsumoto, Nagano
  is a city located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Matsumoto is designated as a Special City.-Outline:The new city of Matsumoto is the city comprising the mergers of the old city of Matsumoto and four villages. Matsumoto officially absorbed those villages without creating a new municipal...
  
   (1582)
• Goka → Hiroshima (1591)
• Hiroshima → Kitahiroshima
  Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido
  is a city located in Ishikari, Hokkaidō, Japan. Its name, Kitahiroshima-shi, is translated as "North-Hiroshima city", or, more loosely, "city of North-Hiroshima", for 'kita' and 'shi' are the Japanese words for 'north' and 'city', respectively...
  
   (1996)
• Hizaori → Asaka
  Asaka, Saitama
  is a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. It was named in 1932 after Prince Asaka who was an honorary chairman of the Tokyo Golf Club, which relocated to the area at that time. Asaka town became a city on March 15, 1967....
  
   (1932)
• Imahama → Nagahama
  Nagahama, Shiga
  is a city located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan on the eastern shore of Lake Biwa. The city center was developed and renamed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi when Hideyoshi moved his center of administration from Odani Castle...
  
   (1575)
• Kameyama → Kameoka
  Kameoka, Kyoto
  is a city located in Kyoto, Japan.As of 2008, the city has an estimated population of 93,323 and a density of 415 persons per km². The total area is 224.90 km². It is known as one of Japan's foggiest cities....
  
   (1869)
• Kōriyama → Yamatokōriyama
  Yamatokoriyama, Nara
  is a city located in Nara, Japan.As of August 31, 2006, the city has an estimated population of 93,280 and the density of 2,185.56 persons per km². The total area is 42.68 km².-Geography:...
  
   (1954)
• Koromo → Toyota
  Toyota, Aichi
  is a city located in the Mikawa region of Aichi Prefecture, Japan, east of Nagoya.Toyota's main plant, the Tsutsumi plant, is located here. The longstanding ties between the Toyota Motor Corporation and the town of Toyota-shi, formerly known as Koromo, gave the town its current...
  
   (1959)
• Kozukata → Morioka (Keichō
  Keicho
  was a after Bunroku and before Genna. This period spanned from October 1596 to July 1615. The reigning emperors were and .-Change of era:* 1596 : The era name was changed to Keichō to mark the passing of various natural disasters...
  
   era)
• Kurokawa → Wakamatsu → Aizuwakamatsu (1955)
• Kurume → Higashikurume
  Higashikurume, Tokyo
  is a city located in western Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. As of 2010, the city has an estimated population of 116,006 and a population density of 8,980 persons per km²...
  
   (1970)
• Murayama → Musashimurayama
  Musashimurayama, Tokyo
  is a city located in Tokyo, Japan.As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 66,150 and the density of 4,303.84 persons per km². The total area is 15.37 km².The city was founded on November 3, 1970....
  
   (1970)
• Nagaoka → Nagaokakyō
  Nagaokakyo, Kyoto
  is a city located in Kyoto, Japan.As of 2008, the city has an estimated population of 79,306 and the density of 4,070.96 persons per km². The total area is 19.18 km²....
  
   (1972)
• Naniwa → Ōsaka
  Osaka
  is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...
  
  
• Ōminatotanabu → Mutsu
  Mutsu, Aomori
  is a city located in northeastern Aomori in the Tōhoku region of Japan. As of 2009, the city had an estimated population of 61,205 and a density of 70.09 persons per km²...
  
   (1960)
• Ōmiya → Hitachiōmiya (2004)
• Ōta → Hitachiōta
  Hitachiota, Ibaraki
  is a city located in Ibaraki, Japan.As of May 1, 2011, the city has an estimated population of 55,906, with a household number of 20,298 and the density of 150.28 persons per km²...
  
   (1954)
• Ōtsu → Kotsu (672) → Ōtsu
  Otsu, Shiga
  is the capital city of Shiga, Japan. The city was founded on October 1, 1898. As of October 1, 2010, the city has an estimated population of 338,629 with an average age of 40.7 years and a population density of 905.28 persons per km²...
  
   (794)
• Ōtsu → Izumiōtsu
  Izumiotsu, Osaka
  is a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan founded on April 1, 1942.As of May 1, 2011, the city has an estimated population of 77,264, with 31,035 households and a population density of 5,990 persons per km². The total area is 12.92 km².-External links:...
  
   (1942)
• Sano → Izumisano
  Izumisano, Osaka
  is a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.As of 2010, the city has an estimated population of 100,022 and the density of 1,820 persons per km². The total area is 55.03 km².The city is home to northern portion of Kansai International Airport...
  
   (1948)
• Sayama → Ōsakasayama (1987)
• Shinobu → Fukushima
  Fukushima, Fukushima
  is the capital city of Fukushima Prefecture in the Tōhoku Region of Japan. As of May 2011 the city has an estimated population of 290,064 and an area of 746.43 km².It lies about 250 km north of Tokyo and 80 km south of Sendai.-History:...
  
   (1592)
• Takada → Bungotakada
  Bungotakada, Oita
  is a city located in Ōita Prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 18,239 and the density of 146.42 persons per km². The total area is 124.57 km²....
  
   (1954)
• Takada → Yamatotakada
  Yamatotakada, Nara
  is a city located in Nara Prefecture, Japan.The city continues to develop as a local business and government center in the center of Nara Prefecture.- History :...
  
   (1948)
• Takaoka → Hirosaki
  Hirosaki, Aomori
  is a city located in southwest Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It is a castle town and was the Tsugaru clan ruled the 100,000 koku tozama han Hirosaki Domain from Hirosaki Castle during the Edo period. The city is currently a regional commercial center and the largest producer of apples in Japan...
  
   (1628)
• Tanabe → Kyōtanabe
  Kyotanabe, Kyoto
  is a city located in the southern tip of Kyoto, Japan.As of 2008, the city has an estimated population of 65,274. The total area is 42.94 km².The city was founded on April 1, 1997, after the town of Tanabe was reorganized into the city of Kyōtanabe. The Kyō- was added to distinguish it from the...
  
   (1997)
• Tsudanuma → Narashino
  Narashino, Chiba
  is a city located in northern Chiba, Japan. As of February 2011, the city had an estimated population of 164,809 and a population density of 7850 persons per km². The total area was 20.99 km².-Geography:...
  
   (1954)
• Yamato → Higashiyamato (1970)

See List of renamed cities in Kazakhstan

• Yasi → Shavgar (?) → Turkestan (Kazakh: Түркістан)
  Hazrat-e Turkestan
  -References:*Hill, John E. Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE. BookSurge, Charleston, South Carolina. ISBN 978-1-4392-2134-1.*Hulsewé, A. F. P. and Loewe, M. A. N. 1979...
  
   (?)
• Novopetrovskoye → Fort Alexandrovsky (1857) → Fort-Shevchenko (1939)
• Ayakoz → Sergiopol (1860) → Ayagoz (Kazakh: Аягөз) (1939)
• Aktau → Shevchenko (1964) → Aktau (Kazakh: Ақтау)
  Aktau
  Aktau , formerly known as Shevchenko , is a city in Kazakhstan's Mangyshlak Peninsula and country's only seaport on the Caspian Sea. It is the capital of Mangystau Province in western Kazakhstan...
  
   (1991)
• Dzharkent → Panfilov (1942) → Zharkent (Kazakh: Жаркент)
  Zharkent
  Jarkent or Zharkent , formerly known as Panfilov and Dzharkent , is a town in Almaty Province, Kazakhstan, the administrative center of Panfilov District. It is located near the Ili river. Its approximate coordinates are ....
  
   (1991)
• Guryev → Atyrau (Kazakh: Атырау)
  Atyrau
  Atyrau , known as Guryev until 1991, is a city in Kazakhstan, and the capital of Atyrau Province. It is located at the mouth of the Ural River, 2700 kilometers west of Almaty and 350 kilometers east of the Russian city of Astrakhan. Other transliterations include Aterau, Atirau, Atyraw, Atyraou,...
  
   (1991)
• Yaitsk → Uralsk (1775) → Oral (Kazakh: Орал)
  Oral, Kazakhstan
  Oral , Uralsk in Russian, formerly known as Yaitsk , is a city in northwestern Kazakhstan, at the confluence of the Ural and Chogan Rivers close to the Russian border. As it is located on the western side of the Ural river, it is considered geographically in Europe. It has a population of 350,000...
  
   (1991)
• Verniy → Alma-Ata (1921) → Almaty (Kazakh: Алматы)
  Almaty
  Almaty , also known by its former names Verny and Alma-Ata , is the former capital of Kazakhstan and the nation's largest city, with a population of 1,348,500...
  
   (1992)
• Dzhezkazgan → Zhezkazgan (Kazakh: Жезқазған) (1992)
• Novy Uzen → Zhanaozen (Kazakh: Жаңаөзен)
  Zhanaözen
  Janaozen or Zhanaozen , formerly known as Novy Uzen , is a town in the Mangystau Province of Kazakhstan located south-east of Aqtau city. The name of the town means "new river" in Kazakh. The population is 51,100 . The absolute location of Janaozen is latitude.- External links :*...
  
   (1992)
• Ust-Kamennaya → Ust-Kamenogorsk (1868) → Oskemen (Kazakh: Өскемен)
  Oskemen
  Oskemen and Ust-Kamennaya , is the capital of the East Kazakhstan Province. It is served by the Ust-Kamenogorsk Airport.-History:...
  
   (1992)
• Chu → Shu (Kazakh: Шу)
  Shu, Kazakhstan
  Shu , formerly known as Chu , is a city in Jambyl Province of Kazakhstan, the administrative center of Shu District.The city is located on the river of the same name, and is populated by approximately 35,000 people.-Transportation:...
  
   (1992)
• Yermak → Aksu (Kazakh: Ақсу)
  Aksu, Kazakhstan
  Aksu , formerly known as Yermak , is a city in Kazakhstan, in Pavlodar Province, located 50 km to the south of Pavlodar on the left bank of the Irtysh River. The municipality borders Aktogay District in the north, Bayanaul District, May District, Lebyazhin District in the south, Pavlodar...
  
   (1993)
• Kokchetav → Kokshetau (Kazakh: Көкшетау)
  Kokshetau
  Kokshetau , formerly known as Kokchetav is the administrative center of Akmola Province, northern Kazakhstan. It has a population of 125,225 .-Geography:Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan, is distant 1245 km south-eastwards...
  
   (1993)
• Gavrilovka → Taldy-Kurgan (1920) → Taldykorgan (Kazakh: Талдықорған)
  Taldykorgan
  Taldykorgan , formerly known as Taldy-Kurgan , is the administrative center of Almaty Province, Kazakhstan. It has a population of 118,400 . Most of the people are Kazakhs.-Education:...
  
   (1993)
• Chimkent → Shymkent (Kazakh: Шымкент)
  Shymkent
  Shymkent , formerly known as Chimkent , is the capital city of South Kazakhstan Province, the most populated region in Kazakhstan. It is the third most populous city in Kazakhstan behind Almaty and Astana with a population of 629,600 . A major railroad junction on the Turkestan-Siberia Railway, the...
  
   (1993)
• Leninsk → Baikonur (Kazakh: Байқоңыр)
  Baikonur
  Baikonur , formerly known as Leninsk, is a city in Kyzylorda Province of Kazakhstan, rented and administered by the Russian Federation. It was constructed to service the Baikonur Cosmodrome and was officially renamed Baikonur by Russian president Boris Yeltsin on December 20, 1995.The shape of the...
  
   (1995)
• Ak-Mechet → Fort-Perovsky (1853) → Perovsk (1858) → Kyzyl-Orda (1925) → Kyzylorda (Kazakh: Қызылорда) (1996)
• Alexeyevka → Akkol (Kazakh: Ақкөл)
  Akkol
  Akkol , formerly known as Alexeyevka , is a town in northern Kazakhstan. It is located 100 km north of the national capital Astana. The town is the administrative centre of Akkol District of Akmola Province, and has a population of 30 230 . Most of the people are Kazakhs and Russians. There...
  
   (1997)
• Kustanay → Kostanay (Kazakh: Қостанай)
  Kostanay
  Kostanay , formerly known as Kustanay and Nikolayevsk , is a city located in the northern part of Kazakhstan at the Tobol River. The population living in Kostanay is 301,317 people. Kostanay is the capital of Kostanay Province.-Public institutions:In Kostanay there are 8 higher educational...
  
   (1997)
• Talas → Aulie-Ata (1856) → Mirzoyan (1936) → Jambul (1938) → Zhambyl (1993) → Taraz (Kazakh: Тараз)
  Taraz
  Taraz , is a city and a center of the Jambyl Province in Kazakhstan. It is located in the south of Kazakhstan, near the border with Kyrgyzstan, on the Talas River...
  
   (1997)
• Akmolinsk → Tselinograd (1961) → Akmola (1992) → Astana (Kazakh: Астана)
  Astana
  Astana , formerly known as Akmola , Tselinograd and Akmolinsk , is the capital and second largest city of Kazakhstan, with an officially estimated population of 708,794 as of 1 August 2010...
  
   (1998)
• Aktyubinsk → Aktobe (Kazakh: Ақтөбе)
  Aktobe
  Aktobe , formerly known as Aktyubinsk , is a city on the Ilek River in Kazakhstan. With a population of 277,700, it is the capital of Aktobe Province. Aktobe has a mixed ethnic community, including Kazakhs, Russians, Ukrainians, Tatars, Uyghurs, Chechens, Armenians, Jews and Greeks...
  
   (1999)
• Ridder → Leningorsk (1941) → Ridder (Kazakh: Риддер) (2002)
• Semipalatinsk → Semey (Kazakh: Семей)
  Semey
  Semey , formerly known as Semipalatinsk and Alash-kala , is a city in Kazakhstan, in the northeastern province of East Kazakhstan, near the border with Siberia, around north of Almaty, and southeast of the Russian city of Omsk, along the Irtysh River.-History:The first settlement was in 1718,...
  
   (2007)

• Sinuiju → Shingishū → Sinuiju
  Sinuiju
  Sinŭiju is a city in North Korea, neighboring with Dandong City, China via international border and is the capital of North P'yŏngan Province...
  
  
• Wanggeom-seong
  Wanggeom-seong
  Wanggeom-seong was the capital city of Gojoseon from 194 to 108 BC, North Korean sources claim it was located somewhere around Pyongyang, the capital of modern North Korea whilst other Korean histories report it being more in the location of the Liao River in modern China. It is also known as...
  
   → Pyongyang
  Pyongyang
  Pyongyang is the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly known as North Korea, and the largest city in the country. Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River and, according to preliminary results from the 2008 population census, has a population of 3,255,388. The city was...
  
   → Seogyeong → Pyongyang → Heijō → Pyongyang
• Wonsanjin → Genzan → Wonsan
  Wonsan
  Wŏnsan is a port city and naval base in southeastern North Korea. It is the capital of Kangwŏn Province. The population of the city is estimated to have been 331,000 in 2000. Notable people from Wŏnsan include Kim Ki Nam, diplomat and Secretary of the Workers' Party.- History :The original name of...
  
  

• Hansan → Hanyang → Hanseong → Gyeongseong → Seoul
  Seoul
  Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
  
  
• Pusan → Fusan → Pusan → Busan
  Busan
  Busan , formerly spelled Pusan is South Korea's second largest metropolis after Seoul, with a population of around 3.6 million. The Metropolitan area population is 4,399,515 as of 2010. It is the largest port city in South Korea and the fifth largest port in the world...
  
  
• Dalgubeol → Taegu → Daegu
  Daegu
  Daegu , also known as Taegu, and officially the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea, the fourth largest after Seoul, Busan, and Incheon, and the third largest metropolitan area in the country with over 2.5 million residents. The city is the capital and principal city of the...
  
  
• Hanbat → Taejon → Daejeon
  Daejeon
  Daejeon is South Korea's fifth largest metropolis and the provincial capital of Chungnam. Located in the center of the country, Daejeon had a population of over 1.5 million in 2010. It is at the crossroads of Gyeongbu railway, Honam railway, Gyeongbu Expressway, and Honam Expressway. Within the...
  
  
• Ungjin
  Ungjin
  Ungjin, also known as Gomnaru is a former city on the Korean Peninsula. It was located in modern-day Gongju, South Chungcheong province, South Korea. It was the capital of Baekje from AD 475 to 538, during a period when Baekje was under threat from Goguryeo, the previous capital of Wiryeseong ...
  
   → Kongju → Gongju
  Gongju
  Gongju , also spelt Kongju, is a city in South Chungcheong province, South Korea. It is located at .- History :Gongju was formerly named Ungjin and was the capital of Baekje from AD 475 to 538. In this period, Baekje was under threat from Goguryeo...
  
  
• Sabi → Soburi → Buyeo

See List of renamed cities in Kyrgyzstan

• Rybachye → Ysyk-Kel (1989) → Balykchy
  Balykchy
  Balykchy is a town with a population about 40,000 people located at the western end of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, at and an elevation of about 1,900 metres...
  
   (1992)
• Karakol → Przhevalsk (1889) → Karakol (1921) → Przhevalsk (1939) → Karakol
  Karakol
  Karakol , formerly Przhevalsk, is fourth largest city in Kyrgyzstan, near the eastern tip of Issyk Kul Lake in Kyrgyzstan, about from the Kyrgyzstan-China border and from the capital Bishkek. It is the administrative capital of Issyk Kul Province...
  
   (1991)
• Pishpek → Frunze (1926) → Bishkek
  Bishkek
  Bishkek , formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and the largest city of Kyrgyzstan.Bishkek is also the administrative centre of Chuy Province which surrounds the city, even though the city itself is not part of the province but rather a province-level unit of Kyrgyzstan.The name is thought to...
  
   (1991)

See List of renamed cities in Latvia

• Stučka → Aizkraukle
  Aizkraukle
  Aizkraukle is a town in Vidzeme region in Latvia, the administrative centre of Aizkraukle municipality on the right bank of the Daugava River.-History:Aizkraukle before the World War I was formerly known by its German name of Ascheraden...
  
  
• Dünaburg → Borisoglebsk → (1656) → Dünaburg (1667) → Dvinsk (1893) → Daugavpils
  Daugavpils
  Daugavpils is a city in southeastern Latvia, located on the banks of the Daugava River, from which the city gets its name. Daugavpils literally means "Daugava Castle". With a population of over 100,000, it is the second largest city in the country after the capital Riga, which is located some...
  
   (1920)
• Libau → Libava → Liepāja
  Liepaja
  Liepāja ; ), is a republican city in western Latvia, located on the Baltic Sea directly at 21°E. It is the largest city in the Kurzeme Region of Latvia, the third largest city in Latvia after Riga and Daugavpils and an important ice-free port...
  
   (1917)
• Birži → Madona
  Madona
  When it comes to age distribution of the Madona inhabitants, the majority group consisting of 5,925 people are registered as "labour-capable" ; 1,339 are under the age of "labour-capability" and 1867 are over...
  
   (1920)
• Windau → Ventspils
  Ventspils
  Ventspils is a city in northwestern Latvia in the Courland historical region of Latvia, the sixth largest city in the country. As of 2006, Ventspils had a population of 43,806. Ventspils is situated on the Venta River and the Baltic Sea, and has an ice-free port...
  
   (parallel use until 1920s)
• Wenden → Cēsis
  Cesis
  Cēsis , is a town in Latvia located in the northern part of the Central Vidzeme Upland. Cēsis is on the Gauja River valley, and is built on a series of ridges above the river overlooking the woods below...
  
   (parallel use until 1920s)
• Schrunden → Skrunda
  Skrunda
  Skrunda is a town in Latvia. It lies 150 km west of the capital city Riga.- Skrunda-1 :Skrunda is best known as the town nearest the former Soviet secret city, Skrunda-1, which housed two major radar installations during the cold war period. Skrunda-1 is currently a ghost town, as the last...
  
   (parallel use until 1920s)
• Stukmaņi → Pļaviņas
  Plavinas
  Pļaviņas is a town in Latvia. The town is located on the Daugava river.-See also:*List of cities in Latvia*Pļaviņas municipality...
  
   (parallel use until 1920s)
• Sasmaka → Valdemārpils
  Valdemarpils
  Valdemārpils is a town in northwestern Latvia, near Talsi. The town is named after Krišjānis Valdemārs, born in nearby Ārlava parish, who was one of the leaders of the first Latvian National Awakening. He is celebrated in the town with a memorial stone.-References:...
  
   (1926)
• Haynasch → Ainaži
  Ainaži
  Ainaži is a harbour town in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. The town is located near the Estonian border on the site of an ancient Liv fishing village. Before 1917, it was known by its German name Haynasch ....
  
   (1917)
• Marienburg → Alūksne
  Aluksne
  Alūksne is a town on the shores of Lake Alūksne in northeastern Latvia near the borders with Estonia and Russia. It is the seat of Alūksne municipality.- History :...
  
   (~1750)
• Vecauce → Auce
  Auce
  -See also:List of cities in Latvia...
  
   (1924)
• Mitau → Mītava → Jelgava
  Jelgava
  -Sports:The city's main football team, FK Jelgava, plays in the Latvian Higher League and won the 2009/2010 Latvian Football Cup.- Notable people :*August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein - linguist, folklorist, ethnographer...
  
   (~1860)
• Wolmar → Valmiera
  Valmiera
  Valmiera is the largest city of the historical Vidzeme region, Latvia, with a total area of 18.1 km². It is the center of the Valmiera District. As of 2002, Valmiera had a population of 27,323, and in 2008 – 27,569....
  
   (parallel use until 1920s)

• Berytus → Beirut
  Beirut
  Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...
  
  
• Heliopolis → Baalbek
  Baalbek
  Baalbek is a town in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon, altitude , situated east of the Litani River. It is famous for its exquisitely detailed yet monumentally scaled temple ruins of the Roman period, when Baalbek, then known as Heliopolis, was one of the largest sanctuaries in the Empire...
  
  
• Sidon → Saida
  Sidon
  Sidon or Saïda is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate of Lebanon, on the Mediterranean coast, about 40 km north of Tyre and 40 km south of the capital Beirut. In Genesis, Sidon is the son of Canaan the grandson of Noah...
  
  
• Tyre → Sur

See also List of cities and towns in East Prussia
See List of renamed cities in Lithuania

• Georgenburg → Jurbarkas
  Jurbarkas
  Jurbarkas is a city in Tauragė County, Lithuania. It is on the right-hand shore of the Neman River at its confluence with the tributaries Mituva and Imsre...
  
  
• Memel → Klaipėda
  Klaipeda
  Klaipėda is a city in Lithuania situated at the mouth of the Nemunas River where it flows into the Baltic Sea. It is the third largest city in Lithuania and the capital of Klaipėda County....
  
   (1923)
• Pašešupys → Starapolė (1736) → Marijampolė
  Marijampole
  Marijampolė is an industrial city and the capital of the Marijampolė County in the south of Lithuania, bordering Poland and Russian Kaliningrad oblast, and Lake Vištytis. The population of Marijampolė is 48,700...
  
   (1758) → Kapsukas (1956) → Marijampolė (1989)
• Šilokarčema → Šilutė
  Šilute
  Šilutė is a city in the south of the Klaipėda County, Lithuania. The city was part of the Klaipėda Region and ethnographic Lithuania Minor. Šilutė was the interwar capital of Šilutė County and is currently the capital of Šilutė district municipality.-Name:...
  
   (1923)
• Vilkmergė → Ukmergė
  Ukmerge
  -Early history:Ukmergė was first mentioned as a settlement in 1333. It was essentially a wooden fortress that stood on a hill, near the confluence of the Vilkmergė River and the Šventoji River. Ukmergė was attacked by the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Order in 1333, 1365, 1378, 1386, and even...
  
   (1920s)
• Medininkai → Varniai
  Varniai
  Varniai , is a city in the Telšiai County, western Lithuania. In the Middle Ages the city was known as Medininkai. It was established in the 14th century, on the bank of the Varnelė River, near an important Samogitian castle. It was the center of Samogitian Catholic church: after the baptism of...
  
   (16th century)
• Sniečkus → Visaginas
  Visaginas
  Visaginas is a city with municipal rights in eastern Lithuania, situated near the country's biggest lake, Drūkšiai. Its administrative boundaries are in the process of being defined. The Vilnius–Daugavpils railway runs alongside the town, providing convenient communication with Vilnius and...
  
   (1992)
• Duoliebaičiai → Władysławów/Vladislavovas (1639) → Naumiestis → Kudirkos Naumiestis
  Kudirkos Naumiestis
  Kudirkos Naumiestis is in the Šakiai district municipality, Lithuania. It is located south-west of Šakiai.The settlement was first mentioned in 1561 as a village called Duoliebaičiai. In 1639 the town was renamed Vladislavovas by Cecilia Renata of Austria after her husband Władysław IV Vasa. He...
  
   (1934)
• Zarasai
  Zarasai
  Zarasai is a city in northeastern Lithuania, surrounded by many lakes and rivers: to the southwest of the city is Zarasas, north – Zarasaitis, southeast – Baltas, and east – Griežtas. Zarasaitis and Griežtas are connected by Laukesa rivulet....
  
   → Novoalexandrovsk (1836) → Ežerėnai (1919) → Zarasai (1929)
• Mažeikiai
  Mažeikiai
  Mažeikiai is a city in the north-western Lithuania, on the Venta River. It has a population of around 45,300, making it the eighth largest city in Lithuania. The city is the administrative center of Mažeikiai district municipality in Telšiai County. It is the largest city that does not have its...
  
   → Muravyov (1899) → Mažeikiai (1918)

• Jesselton → Kota Kinabalu
  Kota Kinabalu
  Kota Kinabalu , formerly known as Jesselton, is the capital of Sabah state in East Malaysia. It is also the capital of the West Coast Division of Sabah. The city is located on the northwest coast of Borneo facing the South China Sea. The Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park lies on one side and Mount...
  
   (1968)
• Port Swettenham → Port Klang
  Port Klang
  Port Klang is a town and the main gateway by sea into Malaysia. Colonially known as Port Swettenham, it is also the location of the largest and busiest port in the country. As such, its economic progress has been greatly influenced by the port activities in its area...
  
   (1963)
• Victoria → Bandar Labuan

• Cajeme → Ciudad Obregón
  Ciudad Obregón
  Ciudad Obregon is the second largest city in the northern Mexican state of Sonora and is situated south of the state's northern border with the U.S. state of Arizona. It is also the municipal seat of Cajeme municipality, located in the Yaqui Valley.- History :...
  
  
• Ciudad Real → San Cristobal de las Casas
  San Cristóbal de las Casas
  San Cristóbal de las Casas also known as it's native Tsotsil name, Jovel is a city and municipality located in the Central Highlands region of the Mexican state of Chiapas...
  
  
• Pitic → Hermosillo
  Hermosillo
  Hermosillo is a city and municipality located centrally in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. It is the capital and main economic center for the state and region. It contains almost all of the state's manufacturing and has thirty percent of its population...
  
  
• Querétaro → Santiago de Querétaro
  Santiago de Querétaro
  Santiago de Querétaro is the capital and largest city of the state of Querétaro, located in central Mexico. It is located 213 km northwest of Mexico City, 96 km southeast of San Miguel de Allende and 200 km south of San Luis Potosí...
  
  
• San Juan Bautista → Villahermosa
  Villahermosa
  Like most of the Tabasco, Villahermosa has a tropical climate. The city specifically features a tropical monsoon climate. Temperatures during spring and summer seasons reach upwards of 40°C , with humidity levels hovering around 30% during the same period...
  
  
• Tenochtitlán → Ciudad de México
• Valladolid → Morelia
  Morelia
  Morelia is a city and municipality in the north central part of the state of Michoacán in central Mexico. The city is in the Guayangareo Valley and is the capital of the state. The main pre-Hispanic cultures here were the P'urhépecha and the Matlatzinca, but no major cities were founded in the...
  
  
• Zapotlán → Ciudad Guzmán
  Ciudad Guzmán
  Ciudad Guzmán is a city in the Mexican state of Jalisco.It is located at , 124 km south of Guadalajara, at a height of 1,507 metres above sea level...
  
  

See List of renamed cities in Moldova

• Romanovca → (1960 ?) Basarabeasca
  Basarabeasca
  Basarabeasca is a city in Moldova. It is the capital of Basarabeasca District.-Geography:The city, formerly an urban-type settlement, is located on the border with Ukraine. It is 94 km to the south of Chişinău, 25 km from Cimislia, and 25 km from Comrat...
  
  
• Cupcini
  Cupcini
  Cupcini is a town in Edineţ district, Moldova. Two villages are administered by the town, Chetroşica Veche and Chiurt....
  
   → (1960 ?) Kalininsk → (1990) Cupcini
• Ghindeşti
  Ghindeşti
  Ghindeşti is a town in Floreşti district, Moldova....
  
   → (1950 ?) Leninskii → (1990) Ghindeşti
• Hînceşti
  Hîncesti
  Hînceşti is a city in Moldova, also written without diacritics as "Hincesti" or "Hancesti" .Hînceşti is situated on the Cogalnic River, southwest of the Moldovan capital, Chişinău...
  
   → (1940) Kotovsk → (1941) Hînceşti → (1944) Kotovsk → (1990) Hînceşti
• Ialoveni
  Ialoveni
  Ialoveni is a city in the Republic of Moldova situated from Chişinău. The city is administrative center of the Ialoveni District.- Twin towns — Sister cities :Ialoveni is twinned with:...
  
   → (1960 ?) Kutuzov
  Kutuzov
  Kutuzov may refer to:* Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal during Napoleonic era* Named after Mikhail Kutuzov** Order of Kutuzov, military award** Kutuzov Embankment, embankment and street** Operation Kutuzov, military operation in WWII...
  
   → (1990) Ialoveni
• Sîngerei
  Sîngerei
  Sîngerei is a city in Moldova and the seat of the administrative region Sîngerei District. One village is administered by the city, Vrăneşti.- History :...
  
   → (1940 ?) Lazovsk → (1990) Sîngerei
• Şoldăneşti
  Soldanesti
  Şoldăneşti is a city in Moldova. It is the capital of Şoldăneşti District.Formerly known as Chernenko during the communist era, the town regained the historical name in early '80s.-References:...
  
   → (1985) Chernenko
  Chernenko
  Chernenko , is a surname of Ukrainian origin. Notable persons with the surname include:* Konstantin Chernenko , Soviet politician and General Secretary of the CPSU* Anastasiya Chernenko, professional Ukrainian Elite triathlete...
  
   → (1988) Şoldăneşti
• Biruinţa → (1940 ?) Suvorovo
  Suvorovo
  Suvorovo is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Varna Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Suvorovo Municipality, which lies in the northwestern part of the Province...
  
   → (1990) Ştefan Vodă
  Ştefan Vodă
  Ştefan Vodă is a city and the administrative centre of Ştefan Vodă District, Moldova. It was known as Suvorov during the Soviet period, until 22 May 1990.-References:...
  
  

Villages

• Alexandru Ioan Cuza → (1940 ?) Suvorovo → (1990s) Alexandru Ioan Cuza
• Chişcăreni → (1960 ?) Lazo → (1990) Chişcăreni

• Berane → Ivangrad (1949) → Berane
  Berane
  Berane , formerly Ivangrad, is a town in north-eastern Montenegro. It has a population of 11,776 .Berane is the centre of municipality and one of the centres of Polimlje area, named after the Lim River, on which Berane is situated.-History:During the medieval period the Montenegrin land of Berane...
  
   (1992)
• Birziminium → Ribnica → Podgorica (1326) → Titograd (1946) → Podgorica
  Podgorica
  Podgorica , is the capital and largest city of Montenegro.Podgorica's favourable position at the confluence of the Ribnica and Morača rivers and the meeting point of the fertile Zeta Plain and Bjelopavlići Valley has encouraged settlement...
  
   (1992)

• Akyab → Sittwe
  Sittwe
  -Economy:In February 2007, India announced a plan to develop the port, which would enable ocean access from Indian Northeastern states, so called "Seven sisters", like Mizoram, via the Kaladan River....
  
  
• Amherst → Kyaikkami
  Kyaikkami
  Kyaikkami is a resort town in the Mon State of south-east Myanmar.Formerly known as Amherst, named after William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, then governor-general, it is situated on a peninsula about south of the town of Mawlamyine. It is a popular destination for local pilgrims and some tourists...
  
  
• Bassein → Pathein
  Pathein
  Pathein , also called Bassein, is a port city with a 2004 population estimated at 215,600, and the capital of the Ayeyarwady Region, Burma. It lies on the Pathein River , which is a western branch of the Irrawaddy River....
  
  
• Henzada → Hinthada
• Maymyo → Pyin U Lwin
  Pyin U Lwin
  Pyin U Lwin or Pyin Oo Lwin , formerly Maymyo , is a scenic hill town in Mandalay Division, Myanmar, located in the Shan Highland, some east of Mandalay, and at an altitude of 1070 meters .-History:...
  
  
• Moulmein → Mawlamyaing
• Myohaung → Mrauk U
  Mrauk U
  Mrauk U is an archaeologically important town in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. It is also the capital of Mrauk-U Township, a sub region of the Sittwe District. It was the capital of Mrauk U Kingdom, the most important and powerful Rakhine kingdom from 1433 to 1784.-Geography:Mrauk U lies...
  
  
• Pagan → Bagan
  Bagan
  Bagan , formerly Pagan, is an ancient city in the Mandalay Region of Burma. Formally titled Arimaddanapura or Arimaddana and also known as Tambadipa or Tassadessa , it was the capital of several ancient kingdoms in Burma...
  
  
• Pegu → Bago
• Prome → Pyay
  Pyay
  Pyay is a town in the Bago Division in Burma. It has an estimated population of 123,800 . Pyay is positioned on the Ayeyarwady River and is northwest of Yangon....
  
  
• Dagon → Rangoon → Yangon
  Yangon
  Yangon is a former capital of Burma and the capital of Yangon Region . Although the military government has officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw since March 2006, Yangon, with a population of over four million, continues to be the country's largest city and the most important commercial...
  
  
• Sandoway → Thandwe
  Thandwe
  -Ngapali Beach:Ngapali Beach is a beach located 7 kilometres from the town of Thandwe , in Rakhine State, Myanmar. It is the most famous beach in Myanmar and is a popular tourist destination...
  
  
• Syriam → Thanlyin
  Thanlyin
  Thanlyin is a major port city of Myanmar, located across Bago River from the city of Yangon. Thanlyin Township comprises 17 quarters and 28 village tracts. It is home to the largest port in the country, Thilawa port.-History:...
  
  
• Tavoy → Dawei
  Dawei
  -Transport:Only recently Dawei was connected to the rest of Myanmar by road and rail. There are plans to construct a deepwater port in Dawei. In November 2010, the Myanmar Port Authority signed a USD $8.6 billion deal with Italian-Thai Development to develop a deep sea port at Dawei...
  
  
• Yaunghwe → Nyaung Shwe
  Nyaung Shwe
  Nyaung Shwe is a town a few kilometers north of Inle Lake in the Shan State of Myanmar.It is located south of Sakangyi and southwest of Taunggyi. Bawrithat Pagoda lies in the southern part of the town....
  
  

• Klipfontein → Bethanie
• Hentiesbucht → Hentiesbaai → Henties Bay
• Walfischbucht → Walvisbaai → Walvis Bay
  Walvis Bay
  Walvis Bay , is a city in Namibia and the name of the bay on which it lies...
  
  
• Windhuk → Windhoek
  Windhoek
  Windhoek is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level. The 2001 census determined Windhoek's population was 233,529...
  
  

• Coriovallum → Heerlen
  Heerlen
  Heerlen is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. The municipality is the second largest in the province of Limburg. It forms part of Parkstad Limburg, , an agglomeration of about 220,000 inhabitants.After its early Roman beginnings and a rather modest medieval period, Heerlen...
  
  
• Noviomagus Batavorum (or Batavodurum) → Nimwegen → Nijmegen
• Traiectum → Traiectum ad Mosam → Maastricht
  Maastricht
  Maastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border and near the German border...
  
  
• Traiectum → Ultra Traiectum → Utrecht
  Utrecht (city)
  Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...
  
  

• Oslo → Christiania → Kristiania →Oslo
  Oslo
  Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
  
  
• Kaupangen → Nidaros → Trondhjem → Nidaros → Trondheim
  Trondheim
  Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...
  
  
• Fredrikshald → Halden
  Halden
  is a both a town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The seat of the municipality, Halden is a border town located at the Tista river delta on the Iddefjord, the southernmost border crossing between Norway and Sweden.-History:...
  
  

• Fort Sandeman → Zhob
  Zhob
  -Roads:Zhob is 333 kilometers from Quetta, 225 kilometers from Dera Ismail Khan. However, the road linking with Dera Ismail Khan is for most part fair nowadays track passing through water streams and almost complete road is metalloid....
  
   (changed - 30 July 1976)
• Lyallpur → Faisalabad
  Faisalabad
  Faisalabad , formerly known as Lyallpur, is the third largest metropolis in Pakistan, the second largest in the province of Punjab after Lahore, and a major industrial center in the heart of Pakistan. Before the foundation of the city in 1880, the area was very thinly populated. The population has...
  
   (changed - 1977)
• Montgomery → Sahiwal
  Sahiwal
  Sahiwal is a city in Punjab, Pakistan. It is the administrative centre of Sahiwal District and Sahiwal Division. Sahiwal is approximately 180 km from the major city Lahore and is the city between Lahore and Multan...
  
   (changed - 1966)
• Nawabshah
  Nawabshah
  Nawabshah , or Shaheed Benazirabad, is a district in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It is headquarter of Shaheed Benazir Abad District...
  
   → Benazirabad (changed - 2008)

• Puerto Flor de Lis → Puerto Presidente Stroessner → Ciudad del Este
  Ciudad del Este
  Ciudad del Este is the second largest city in Paraguay and capital of Alto Paraná department, located at the Rio Paraná....
  
  
• Ajos → Coronel Oviedo
  Coronel Oviedo
  Coronel Oviedo is a city in Paraguay. It is the capital of the Caaguazú Department, about 150 kilometers east of Asunción.The city has a population of about 52,400 and is the hometown of president Nicanor Duarte Frutos. Coronel Oviedo is an important transit point, as it lies halfway between...
  
  

see also List of cities and towns in East Prussia

• Aleksandrowo → Aleksandrów Pograniczny → Aleksandrów Kujawski
  Aleksandrów Kujawski
  Aleksandrów Kujawski is a small town in Poland, in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.It is situated about 18 km south-east of Toruń...
  
  
• Jędrzychów → Andrzychów → Andrychów
  Andrychów
  Andrychów is the largest town in Wadowice County in southern Poland with 22,257 inhabitants as of 2006. It has been situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999. Previously, it was located in Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship...
  
  
• Barcino → Barcin
  Barcin
  Barcin is a town in Poland, in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in Żnin County. It has 7,864 inhabitants .-External links:*...
  
  
• Wartberge → Wartenburg → Nowowiejsk2 → Barczewo
  Barczewo
  Barczewo is a town in Olsztyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland. It is located 20 km NE of Olsztyn.The town was first located in 1325 but was soon after destroyed by Lithuanians. The rebuild town was granted city rights in 1364. In 1466, after the Second Peace of Toruń then known...
  
  
• Brido → Wartha → Bardo
  Bardo, Poland
  Bardo is a town in Ząbkowice Śląskie County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district called Gmina Bardo....
  
  
• Neu Berlin → Berlinchen → Barlinek
  Barlinek
  Barlinek is a town in Poland, in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in Myślibórz County. It has 14,162 inhabitants .The first written mention about the town is from 1278 . In the first half of the 15th century, the town, situated in the Neumark region, was under control of the Teutonic Knights...
  
  
• Rosenthal → Bartenstein → Bartoszyce
  Bartoszyce
  Bartoszyce is a town on the Łyna River in northeastern Poland with 25,621 inhabitants . It is the capital of Bartoszyce County within the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.-History:...
  
  
• Barwica → Bärwalde1 → Barwice
  Barwice
  Barwice is a town in Poland, in West Pomeranian Voivodship, in Szczecinek County.-Geographics:The town is located on the Baltic Uplands in Farther Pomerania at an altitude of about 150 to 180 meters above sea level within the upper region of the river Persante. 20 kilometers further south the...
  
  2
• Biała → Zülz1 → Biała2
• Gajle → Biała → Gehlen1 → Gehlenburg → Biała Piska2
• Brzegi → Białe Brzegi → Białobrzegi
• Biały Bór → Baldenburg1 → Biały Bór2
• Bielszczany Stok → Białystok
• Biała → Langenbielau1 → Bielawa
  Bielawa
  Bielawa is a town in south-western Poland with 31,988 inhabitants . It is situated in Dzierżoniów County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship ; previously it has been a part of the Wałbrzych Voivodeship ....
  
  2
• Lignica → Fürstenwald1 → Beroldestadt → Bernstadt → Bierutów
  Bierutów
  Bierutów is a town in Oleśnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district called Gmina Bierutów. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany...
  
  2
• Bischofsburg → Biskupiec
  Biskupiec
  Biskupiec is a town in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland. It is located in Olsztyn County and has a predominantly Catholic population of approximately 11,400...
  
  2
• Strowangen → Bischofstein → Bistein → Bisztynek
  Bisztynek
  Bisztynek is a town in Bartoszyce County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, with 2,555 inhabitants ....
  
  2
• Błaszkowice → Błaszki
• Richnow → Reichenau1 → Rychwałd2 → Bogatynia
  Bogatynia
  Bogatynia is a town in Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the tripoint of the Czech, German and Polish borders. The town lies approximately south of Zgorzelec, and west of the regional capital Wrocław. As of 2006 it had 19,068 inhabitants.The...
  
  
• Gross-Born → Borne Sulinowo
  Borne Sulinowo
  Borne Sulinowo is a town in Poland's Western Pomeranian Voivodship, in the Powiat of Szczecinek. It is a capital of a separate gmina and home to 4149 inhabitants...
  
  2
• Brusseberge → Brunsberg → Braunsberg → Braniewo
  Braniewo
  Braniewo is a town in northeastern Poland, in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, with a population of 18,068 . It is the capital of Braniewo County...
  
  2
• Brwinowo → Brwinów
  Brwinów
  Brwinów is a town in Pruszków County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, about 25 km from the centre of Warsaw; according to the 2008 records Brwinów has 12131 inhabitants....
  
  
• Wysoki Brzeg → Brieg1 → Brzeg
  Brzeg
  Brzeg is a town in southwestern Poland with 38,496 inhabitants , situated in Silesia in the Opole Voivodeship on the left bank of the Oder...
  
  2
• Brzeg → Dyhernfurth → Brzeg Dolny
  Brzeg Dolny
  Brzeg Dolny is a town in Wołów County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland. It is located north-west of Wrocław on the Oder River, and is the site of a large chemical complex, PCC Rokita SA...
  
  2
• Busk → Busko → Busko Zdrój
• Bydgoszcz → Bromberg → Bydgoszcz2 → Bromberg → Bydgoszcz2
• Bystrzyce → Habelschwerdt1 → Bystrzyca Kłodzka
• Bytom → Beuthen an der Oder1 → Białobrzezie2 → Bytom Odrzański
  Bytom Odrzanski
  Bytom Odrzański is a town on the Oder river in western Poland, in Nowa Sól County of Lubusz Voivodeship.-History:Archaeological findings from the Stone Age and Bronze Age around Bytom suggest a early settlement. A Slavic gród is mentioned in 1005...
  
  
• Łoza → Kulmsee1 → Chełmża2
• Freienwalde → Chociwel
  Chociwel
  Chociwel is a town in Poland, in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in Stargard County. It has 3,279 inhabitants .Prior to World War II Chociwel was in Germany and known as Freienwalde. It had a population of 3,406 in 1939. After the death and dislocation associated with the war, its population was...
  
  2
• Konice → Konigesberge1 → Königsberg in der Neumark → Chojna
  Chojna
  Chojna is a small town in western Poland in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It lies approximately 60 km south of Szczecin and participates in the Douzelage....
  
  2
• Chorzów → Königshütte1 → Chorzów
  Chorzów
  Chorzów is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Chorzów is one of the central districts of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - a metropolis with a population of 2 million...
  
  2
• Arnswalde → Choszczno
  Choszczno
  Choszczno is a town in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The town is located in a marshy district between the river Stobnica and Klukom lake , southwest of Stargard Szczeciński and on the main railway line between Szczecin and Poznań...
  
  2
• Tempelburg → Czaplinek
  Czaplinek
  Czaplinek is a town in Drawsko County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with 6,879 inhabitants ....
  
  2
• Czarne → Hammerstein1 → Czarne2 → Hammerstein1 → Czarne
  Czarne
  Czarne is a town in Człuchów County of Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland. Population: 6,053 .-History:The town was founded on the territories that were formerly part of the Kingdom of Poland. They were acquired by the Monastic State of the Teutonic Order in 1308. Konrad von Jungingen...
  
  2
• Rothenburg → Czerwieńsk
  Czerwiensk
  Czerwieńsk is a town in Zielona Góra County, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,152 inhabitants . Czerwieńsk is a railroad junction, where the Wrocław - Zielona Góra - Szczecin connection meets the line to Poznań....
  
  2
• Dęblin → Iwanogród → Dęblin
  Deblin
  Dęblin is a town, population 19,500 , at the confluence of Vistula and Wieprz rivers, in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. Dęblin is the part of the agglomeration with adjacent towns of Ryki and Puławy, which altogether has over 100 000 inhabitants....
  
  
• Dzierzgoń → Neu Christburg1 → Christburg → Dzierzgoń
  Dzierzgon
  Dzierzgoń is a town in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is located in Sztum County east of Malbork and south of Elbląg on the river Dzierzgoń...
  
  2
• Reichenbach → Dzierżoniów
  Dzierzoniów
  Dzierżoniów is a town in southwestern Poland. It is situated in Lower Silesian Voivodeship...
  
  2
• Łęg → Lyck → Ełk
• Gdynia → Gotenhafen → Gdynia
  Gdynia
  Gdynia is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland and an important seaport of Gdańsk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea.Located in Kashubia in Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdańsk and suburban communities, which together...
  
  
• Danzig → Gdansk
  Gdansk
  Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
  
  2
• Nowa Wieś → Lötzen → Giżycko
  Gizycko
  Giżycko is a town in northeastern Poland with 29,796 inhabitants . It is situated in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , having previously been in the Suwałki Voivodeship . It is the seat of Giżycko County.-History:...
  
  2
• Landsberg → Landsberg an der Warthe → Gorzów Wielkopolski
  Gorzów Wielkopolski
  Gorzów Wielkopolski is a city in western Poland, on the Warta river. It is the biggest city in the Lubusz Voivodeship with 125,149 inhabitants...
  
  2
• Nowy Włodzisław → Junowłodzisław → Inowłodzisław → Inowłocław → Inowrocław → Hohensalza → Inowrocław → Hohensalza → Inowrocław
• Biała → Janów → Janów Lubelski
  Janów Lubelski
  Janów Lubelski is a town in eastern Poland. It has 11,882 inhabitants .Situated in the Lublin Voivodship . It is the capital of Janów Lubelski County.It has a large hospital...
  
  
• Hirschberg → Jelenia Góra
  Jelenia Góra
  ----Jelenia Góra is a city in Lower Silesia, south-western Poland. The name of the city means "deer mountain" in Polish, Czech and German. It is close to the Krkonoše mountain range running along the Polish-Czech border – ski resorts such as Karpacz and Szklarska Poręba can be found...
  
  2
• Kattowitz → Katowice → Stalinogród → Katowice
  Katowice
  Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...
  
  
• Wietrzna Góra → Kazimierz → Kazimierz Dolny
  Kazimierz Dolny
  Kazimierz Dolny is a small town in Central Poland, on the right bank of the Vistula river in Puławy County, Lublin Province.It is a considerable tourist attraction as one of the most beautifully situated little towns in Poland. It enjoyed its greatest prosperity in the 16th and the first half of...
  
  
• Rast → Rastenburg → Kętrzyn
  Ketrzyn
  Kętrzyn , is a town in northeastern Poland with 28,351 inhabitants . Situated in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , Kętrzyn was previously in Olsztyn Voivodeship . It is the capital of Kętrzyn County...
  
  
• Kladsko → Glatz → Kłodzko
• Hurthland → Friedland → Korfantów
  Korfantów
  Korfantów is a town in the Opole Voivodeship of Poland. It has a population of approximately 1,860 inhabitants. It is named after Wojciech Korfanty....
  
  2
• Lignica → Liegnitz1 → Legnica
  Legnica
  Legnica is a town in south-western Poland, in Silesia, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the plain of Legnica, riverside: Kaczawa and Czarna Woda. Between 1 June 1975 and 31 December 1998 Legnica was the capital of the Legnica Voivodeship. It is currently the seat of the county...
  
  2
• Łódź → Litzmannstadt1 → Łódź2
• Berenwalde → Bärwalde → Mieszkowice
  Mieszkowice
  Mieszkowice is a town in Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland, about east of the Oder river and the border with Germany...
  
  2
• Mieńsk → Mińsk → Nowomińsk → Mińsk Mazowiecki
  Minsk Mazowiecki
  Mińsk Mazowiecki is a town in central Poland with 38 181 inhabitants . It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship , previously in Siedlce Voivodeship...
  
  
• Sensburg → Mrągowo
  Mragowo
  Mrągowo is a town in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship of northeastern Poland, the capital of Mrągowo County and the seat the Gmina Mrągowo...
  
  
• Florianów → Narol
• Nowe Miasto Korczyn → Nowy Korczyn
  Nowy Korczyn
  Nowy Korczyn is a village in Busko County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Nowy Korczyn. It lies approximately south of Busko-Zdrój and south of the regional capital Kielce. It is located close to the confluence of the Nida and...
  
  
• Margrabowa → Treuburg1 → Olecko
  Olecko
  Olecko is a town in Masuria, in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship of Poland, near Ełk and Suwałki. It is situated at the mouth of the Lega river into the Great Olecko Lake on its south-western shore...
  
  2
• Pazluk → Hollandt1 → Preußisch Holland → Pasłęk2
• Piasek → Piaski Luterskie → Piaski
  Piaski
  Piaski , formerly Piaski Luterskie, is a town in Poland at the Giełczew river. The town's population is about 2,660 . Administratively it belongs to Powiat of Świdnik of the Lublin Voivodeship. It lies 16 km Southeast of Świdnik.- History :...
  
  
• Melcekuke → Mehlsack → Pieniężno
  Pieniezno
  Pieniężno is a town on the Wałsza River in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship of Poland. It is located in Braniewo County and had a population of 2,975 in 2004.- History :...
  
  2
• Pisz → Johannisburg1 → Pisz
  Pisz
  Pisz is a town in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland, with a population of 19,328 in 2004. It is the seat of Pisz County. Pisz is located at the junction of Lake Roś and the Pisa River.- Etymology :...
  
  2
• Przemków → Primkenow1 → Primkenau1 → Przemków
  Przemków
  Przemków is a town in Polkowice County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district called Gmina Przemków. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany...
  
  2
• Puławy → Nowa Aleksandria → Puławy
• Słupsk → Stolp1 → Słupsk2
• Ortulfsburg → Ortelsburg → Szczytno
  Szczytno
  Szczytno is a town in north-eastern Poland with 27,970 inhabitants . Previously part of the Olsztyn Voivodeship, Szczytno was assigned to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in 1999. It is the seat of Szczytno County....
  
  2
• Rogoźno → Jelitowo → Tomaszów → Tomaszów Lubelski
  Tomaszów Lubelski
  Tomaszów Lubelski is a town in south-eastern Poland with 20,261 inhabitants . Situated in the Lublin Voivodeship , previously in Zamość Voivodeship . It is the capital of Tomaszów Lubelski County.-History:...
  
  
• Waldenberg → Waldenburg → Wałbrzych2
• Wejherowska Wola → Neustadt1 → Wejherowo → Neustadt1 → Wejherowo
  Wejherowo
  Wejherowo is a town in Gdańsk Pomerania, northern Poland, with 47,435 inhabitants . It has been the capital of Wejherowo County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999; previously, it was a town in Gdańsk Voivodeship .-History:...
  
  
• Wielka Wieś → Władysławowo
  Władysławowo
  Władysławowo is a town on the south coast of the Baltic Sea in the Kashubia in Eastern Pomerania region, northern Poland, with 15,015 inhabitants.-Overview:...
  
  
• Włodzisław → Włocław → Leslau → Włocławek → Leslau → Włocławek2
• Wrocisław → Wrocław → Preßlau1 → Breslau → Wrocław2
• Zabrze → Hindenburg1 → Zabrze
  Zabrze
  Zabrze is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. The west district of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union is a metropolis with a population of around 2 million...
  
  2
• Zawadzki → Andreashütte1 → Zawadzkie
  Zawadzkie
  Zawadzkie is a town in Strzelce County, Opole Voivodeship, Poland, with 8,469 inhabitants . In this area are located two villages: Kielcza, Żędowice.-See also:...
  
  2
• Zielona Góra → Grünberg1 → Zielona Góra
  Zielona Góra
  Zielona Góra is a city in Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland, with 117,557 inhabitants within the city limits and 294,000 inhabitants within the metropolitan area, including three neighbouring counties ....
  
  2

• 1 Cities in western side that have been changed when Poland got independence from Austria-Hungary
  Austria-Hungary
  Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...
  
   in 1918
• 2 Former German cities during 1918-1939, and became a city in Nazi Germany
  Nazi Germany
  Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
  
  , and became a Polish city after 1942.

• Aeminium
  Aeminium
  Aeminium was the ancient name of the city of Coimbra, in Portugal.The Romans founded the civitas of Aeminium in this place at the time of Augustus, which came under the protection of nearby Conimbriga situated some 15 km away to the south....
  
   → Coimbra
  Coimbra
  Coimbra is a city in the municipality of Coimbra in Portugal. Although it served as the nation's capital during the High Middle Ages, it is better-known for its university, the University of Coimbra, which is one of the oldest in Europe and the oldest academic institution in the...
  
  
• Bracara Augusta → Braga
  Braga
  Braga , a city in the Braga Municipality in northwestern Portugal, is the capital of the Braga District, the oldest archdiocese and the third major city of the country. Braga is the oldest Portuguese city and one of the oldest Christian cities in the World...
  
  
• Conimbriga
  Conímbriga
  Conímbriga is one of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal, and is classified as a National Monument. Conímbriga lies 16 km from Coimbra and less than 2 km from Condeixa-a-Nova. The site also has a museum that displays objects found by archaeologists during their excavations,...
  
   → Condeixa-a-Nova
  Condeixa-a-Nova
  Condeixa-a-Nova , also known as Condeixa, is a town and a municipality in the district of Coimbra, Portugal. It is located 15 km south of Coimbra, and in the Greater Metropolitan Area of Coimbra...
  
   (Coimbra
  Coimbra
  Coimbra is a city in the municipality of Coimbra in Portugal. Although it served as the nation's capital during the High Middle Ages, it is better-known for its university, the University of Coimbra, which is one of the oldest in Europe and the oldest academic institution in the...
  
  )
• Iebora → Évora
  Évora
  Évora is a municipality in Portugal. It has total area of with a population of 55,619 inhabitants. It is the seat of the Évora District and capital of the Alentejo region. The municipality is composed of 19 civil parishes, and is located in Évora District....
  
  
• Olisipo → Al-Usbuna → Lisbon
  Lisbon
  Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
  
   (Lisboa)
• Pax Iulia → Beja
  Beja (Portugal)
  Beja is a city in the Beja Municipality in the Alentejo region, Portugal. The municipality has a total area of 1,147.1 km² and a total population of 34,970 inhabitants. The city proper has a population of 21,658....
  
  
• Portus Cale → Porto
  Porto
  Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...
  
   (Oporto) and Vila Nova de Gaia
  Vila Nova de Gaia
  Vila Nova de Gaia, or simply Gaia is a city in Vila Nova de Gaia Municipality, Portugal. It is located in the Porto District, south of the city of Porto on the other side of the Douro River. The city proper has a population of 178,255 and the municipality contains 24 parishes with a total...
  
  
• Sheberina → Serpa
  Serpa
  Serpa is a municipality in Portugal, in Alentejo Region, with a total area of 1104.0 km² and a total population of 16,178 inhabitants. The Guadiana River flows close to the town of Serpa....
  
  
• Sintara → Sintra
  Sintra
  Sintra is a town within the municipality of Sintra in the Grande Lisboa subregion of Portugal. Owing to its 19th century Romantic architecture and landscapes, becoming a major tourist centre, visited by many day-trippers who travel from the urbanized suburbs and capital of Lisbon.In addition to...
  
  
• Villa Euracini → Vila Ueracin (1206) → Varazim (1308) → Póvoa de Varzim
  Póvoa de Varzim
  Póvoa de Varzim is a Portuguese city in the Norte Region and sub-region of Greater Porto, with a 2011 estimated population of 63,364. According to the 2001 census, there were 63,470 inhabitants with 42,396 living in the city proper. The urban area expanded, southwards, to Vila do Conde, and there...
  
  

• Axiopolis → Cernavodă
  Cernavoda
  Cernavodă is a town in Constanţa County, Dobrogea, Romania with a population of 20,514.The town's name is derived from the Slavic černa voda , meaning "black water". This name is regarded by some scholars as a calque of the earlier Thracian name Axíopa, from IE *n.ksei "dark" and upā "water"...
  
  
• Abruttus → Abrud
  Abrud
  Abrud is a town in the north-western part of Alba County, Transylvania, Romania, located on the river Abrud. It administers three villages: Abrud-Sat, Gura Cornei and Soharu.-Population:...
  
  
• Ad Mediam → Băile Herculane
  Baile Herculane
  Băile Herculane is a town in Romanian Banat, in Caraş-Severin County, situated in the valley of the Cerna River, between the Mehedinţi Mountains to the east and the Cerna Mountains to the west, elevation 168 meters. Its current population is approximately 6,000...
  
  
• Aegyssus → Tulcea
  Tulcea
  Tulcea is a city in Dobrogea, Romania. It is the administrative center of Tulcea county, and has a population of 92,379 as of 2007. One village, Tudor Vladimirescu, is administered by the city.- History :...
  
  
• Ampelum → Zlatna
  Zlatna
  Zlatna is a town in Alba County, central Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 8,607.- Administration :The town administers eighteen villages: Boteşti , Budeni , Dealu Roatei , Dobrot, Dumbrava, Feneş , Galaţi , Izvoru Ampoiului , Pârău Gruiului , Pătrângeni ,...
  
  
• Apulum → Bălgrad → Gyulafehérvár → Alba Iulia
  Alba Iulia
  Alba Iulia is a city in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania with a population of 66,747, located on the Mureş River. Since the High Middle Ages, the city has been the seat of Transylvania's Roman Catholic diocese. Between 1541 and 1690 it was the capital of the Principality of Transylvania...
  
  
• Arrubium → Măcin
  Macin
  -Location:Măcin is located in the north-western part of the Dobrudja region, in Tulcea County. The city is located at the intersection of the DN22 and DN22D national roads. The DN22 road links it to the Romanian capital, Bucharest and to the cities of Isaccea and Tulcea...
  
  
• Kronstadt → Braşov → Oraşul Stalin → Braşov
  Brasov
  Brașov is a city in Romania and the capital of Brașov County.According to the last Romanian census, from 2002, there were 284,596 people living within the city of Brașov, making it the 8th most populated city in Romania....
  
  
• Bucureşci → Bucureşti
  Bucharest
  Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
  
   (Bucharest)
• Calatis → Mankalya →Mangalia
  Mangalia
  Mangalia , is a city and a port on the coast of the Black Sea in the south-east of Constanţa County, Romania.The municipality of Mangalia also administers several summer time seaside resorts: Cap Aurora, Jupiter, Neptun, Olimp, Saturn, Venus.-History:...
  
  
• Carsium → Hârşova
  Hârsova
  Hârşova is a town located on the right bank of the Danube, in Constanţa County, Romania, with a population of 11,000.The village of Vadu Oii is administered by the town...
  
  
• Cibinum → Hermannstadt → Nagyszeben → Sibiu
  Sibiu
  Sibiu is a city in Transylvania, Romania with a population of 154,548. Located some 282 km north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Cibin River, a tributary of the river Olt...
  
  
• Dierna → Orşova
  Orsova
  Orșova is a port city on the Danube river in southwestern Romania's Mehedinți County. It is one of four localities in the county located in the Banat historical region. It is situated just above the Iron Gates, on the spot where the Cerna River meets the Danube.- History :The first documented...
  
  
• Jassy → Yaş→ Iaşi
  Iasi
  Iași is the second most populous city and a municipality in Romania. Located in the historical Moldavia region, Iași has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Romanian social, cultural, academic and artistic life...
  
  
• Marosvásárhely → Târgu Mureş
• Napoca → Klausenburg → Kolozsvár → Cluj → Cluj-Napoca
  Cluj-Napoca
  Cluj-Napoca , commonly known as Cluj, is the fourth most populous city in Romania and the seat of Cluj County in the northwestern part of the country. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest , Budapest and Belgrade...
  
  
• Noviodunum → Isaccea
  Isaccea
  Isaccea is a small town in Tulcea County, in Dobruja, Romania, on the right bank of the Danube, 35 km north-west of Tulcea. According to the 2002 census, it has a population 5,374....
  
  
• Porolissum → Zalău
  Zalau
  Zalău is the seat of Sălaj County, Transylvania, Romania. In 2004, its estimated population was 62,900.- Ancient times :Zalău is situated in the area inhabited by "Free Dacians", 8 kilometers away from the historical landmark of Porolissum, a well-preserved Roman Castrum with an imposing fortress,...
  
  
• Potaissa → Turda
  Turda
  Turda is a city and Municipality in Cluj County, Romania, situated on the Arieş River.- Ancient times :The city was founded by Dacians under the name Patavissa or Potaissa...
  
  
• Temesvár → Tamışvar → Temesvár → Timişoara
  Timisoara
  Timișoara is the capital city of Timiș County, in western Romania. One of the largest Romanian cities, with an estimated population of 311,586 inhabitants , and considered the informal capital city of the historical region of Banat, Timișoara is the main social, economic and cultural center in the...
  
  
• Tomis → Constanţa
  Constanta
  Constanța is the oldest extant city in Romania, founded around 600 BC. The city is located in the Dobruja region of Romania, on the Black Sea coast. It is the capital of Constanța County and the largest city in the region....
  
  
• Drobeta → Turnu Severin → Drobeta-Turnu Severin
  Drobeta-Turnu Severin
  Drobeta-Turnu Severin is a city in Mehedinţi County, Oltenia, Romania, on the left bank of the Danube, below the Iron Gates.The city administers three villages: Dudaşu Schelei, Gura Văii, and Schela Cladovei...
  
  

see also List of cities and towns in East Prussia

See List of renamed cities and towns in Russia

• Abinsky → Abinsk
  Abinsk
  Abinsk , known as Abinsky before 1963, is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located southwest of Krasnodar. Population: 23,000 ....
  
   (1963)
• Adygeysk (1969) → Teuchezhsk (1976) → Adygeysk
  Adygeysk
  Adygeysk is a town in the Republic of Adygea, Russia, located near Krasnodar Reservoir, northwest of Maykop, the capital of the republic. The town is in direct jurisdiction of the republic. Population: -History:...
  
   (1992)
• Aksayskaya → Aksaysk
• Alexandria (1838) → Dakhovsky (1864) → Dakhovsky Posad (1874) → Sochi
  Sochi
  Sochi is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated just north of Russia's border with the de facto independent republic of Abkhazia, on the Black Sea coast. Greater Sochi sprawls for along the shores of the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains...
  
   (1896)
• Alexandrovsk (1896) → Polyarny
  Polyarny (inhabited locality)
  Polyarny , Polyarnaya , or Polyarnoye is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.Urban localities*Polyarny, Murmansk Oblast, a town under the administrative jurisdiction of the closed administrative-territorial formation of Alexandrovsk, Murmansk OblastRural localities*Polyarny, Sakha...
  
   (1939)
• Alexandrovskaya → Alexandrovka → Alexandrovsky (1917) → Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky
  Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky
  Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located near the Tatar Strait on the western shores of Northern Sakhalin at the foot of the Western Sakhalin Mountains. Population: 21,000 . It was known as during Japanese occupation between 1918-1925.-History:A settlement called...
  
   (1926)
• Alexandrovskoye (1860) → Alexandrovka (1926) → Krasnopartizansk (1931) → Kuybyshevka-Vostochnaya (1936) → Belogorsk
  Belogorsk, Amur Oblast
  Belogorsk is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia, located on the Tom River, a tributary of the Zeya. Population: 67,400 ; 53,000 ; 34,000 .-History:...
  
   (1957)
• Alexeyevsk (1912) → Svobodny
  Svobodny, Amur Oblast
  Svobodny is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: 58,730 ; 63,889 ; -Geography:The town is located north of Blagoveshchensk on the right bank of the Zeya River.-History:...
  
   (1917)
• Almetyevo → Almetyevsk
  Almetyevsk
  Almetyevsk , also spelled Almat and Elmet, is a city in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the left bank of the Zay River southeast of Kazan. Population: 77,000 ; 49,000 ....
  
  
• Antrea → Kamennogorsk
  Kamennogorsk
  Kamennogorsk , known as Antrea before 1948, is a town in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus on the left bank of the Vuoksa River northwest of St. Petersburg...
  
   (1948)
• Apsheronskaya (1863) → Apsheronsk
  Apsheronsk
  Apsheronsk is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Pshekha River . Population: 33,400 .It was founded in 1863 as the stanitsa of Apsheronskaya .The town's main industries are forestry and woodworking....
  
   (1947)
• Armyansky Aul (1839) → Armavir (1848)
• Arzamas-16 (1946) → Kremlyov (1991) → Sarov
  Sarov
  Sarov is a closed town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Until 1995 it was known as Kremlyov ., while from 1946 to 1991 it was called Arzamas-16 . The town is off limits to foreigners as it is the Russian center for nuclear research. Population: -History:The history of the town can be divided...
  
   (1995)
• Astapovo → Lev Tolstoy (settlement)
  Lev Tolstoy (settlement)
  Lev Tolstoy is a settlement in the northern part of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia. It is the administrative center of Lev-Tolstovsky District. Population: 8,800 ; 9,035 ; 9,139 ....
  
  
• Balanda → Kalininsk
• Bashanta → Gorodovikovsk
  Gorodovikovsk
  Gorodovikovsk is a town and the administrative center of Gorodovikovsky District of the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia, located on the Bashantenon River, west of Elista. Population:...
  
  
• Batalpashinkaya (1804) → Batalpashinsk (1931) → Sulimov (1934) → Yezhovo-Cherkessk (1937) → Cherkessk
  Cherkessk
  Cherkessk is the capital city of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia, as well as its political, economic, and cultural center. Population: 121,439 ; 116,244 ; -History:...
  
   (1939)
• Beloozero (862) → Belozersk
  Belozersk
  Belozersk , known as Beloozero until 1777 , is a town and the administrative center of Belozersky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia, situated on the southern bank of Lake Beloye, from which it takes the name...
  
   (1777)
• Belorechenskaya (1863) → Belorechensk
  Belorechensk, Krasnodar Krai
  Belorechensk is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, on the Belaya River, from which it takes its name. Population: It was established as a Cossack settlement in 1863. Town status was granted to it in 1958. During the Soviet era, a corrective labor camp was located here.-External links:*...
  
   (1958)
• Beloretsk → Mezhgorye
  Mezhgorye
  Mezhgorye may refer to:*Mezhgorye, Republic of Bashkortostan, a closed town in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia*Mezhgorye, Primorsky Krai, a village in Primorsky Krai, Russia...
  
  
• Belotsarsk (1914) → Khem-Beldyr (1918) → Kyzyl
  Kyzyl
  -External links:*** in Kyzyl, Russia*...
  
   (1926)
• Bikinskaya → Bikin
• Biryuch → Budyonny → Krasnogvardeyskoye → Biryuch
  Biryuch
  Biryuch is a town and the administrative center of Krasnogvardeysky District of Belgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the bank of the Tikhaya Sosna River. Population:...
  
   (2007)
• Bobriki → Donskoy
  Donskoy, Tula Oblast
  Donskoy is a town in Tula Oblast, Russia, located in the upper streams of the Don River, southeast of Tula. Population: It was granted town status in 1939.-External links:...
  
  
• Bobriki → Stalinogorsk (1934) → Novomoskovsk
  Novomoskovsk, Russia
  Novomoskovsk , called Bobriki before 1934 and Stalinogorsk between 1934 and 1961, is a city in Tula Oblast, Russia, located at the source of the Don and Shat Rivers. Population: 143,000 ; 107,000 ; 76,000 ....
  
   (1961)
• Bogdanovo → Spassk → Bednodemyanovsk → Spassk
  Spassk, Penza Oblast
  Spassk is a town and the administrative center of Spassky District of Penza Oblast, Russia. Population: -History:In 1648, an uncultivated field was discovered in Shatsky Uyezd and was given to a nearby Savior monastery. In 1663, a village was established there, called Bogdanovo. In 1779, it was...
  
  
• Bolokhovsky → Bolokhovo
  Bolokhovo
  Bolokhovo is a town in Kireyevsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the Olen River , southeast of Tula. Population: It was granted town status in 1943....
  
  
• Bondyuzhsk → Mendeleyevsk
  Mendeleyevsk
  Mendeleyevsk is a town and the administrative center of Mendeleyevsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the Toyma River, east of Kazan. Population:...
  
  
• Borovskaya Sloboda → Bor (1938)
• Beryozovskoye → Björkö → Koivisto → Primorsk, Leningrad Oblast
  Primorsk, Leningrad Oblast
  Primorsk is a coastal town in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, and the largest Russian port on the Baltic. It is located on the Karelian Isthmus, west of St. Petersburg, at the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland, near Birch Islands, protected as a sea bird sanctuary...
  
  
• Chegem Pervy → Chegem
  Chegem
  Chegem is a town and the administrative center of Chegemsky District of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia, located north of Nalchik, at the elevation of about . Population:...
  
  
• Chembar → Belinsky
  Belinsky (town)
  Belinsky is a town and the administrative center of Belinsky District of Penza Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Bolshoy and Maly Chembar Rivers, west of Penza. Population:...
  
  
• Chertanla → Novyy Uzen' (1835) → Novouzensk
  Novouzensk
  Novouzensk is a town and the administrative center of Novouzensky District of Saratov Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Bolshoy Uzen River at its confluence with the Chertanly River, southeast of Saratov. Population:...
  
  
• Chesnokovka → Novoaltaysk
  Novoaltaysk
  Novoaltaysk , known as Chesnokovka before 1962, is a town in Altai Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Ob River across from Barnaul. Population: 51,000 ; 9,000 ....
  
   (1962)
• Chelyabinsk-40 (1945) → Chelyabinsk-65 → Ozyorsk
  Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast
  Ozyorsk or Ozersk is a closed town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. Population: It was founded on the shore of the Irtyash Lake in 1945...
  
   (1994)
• Chelyabinsk-70 → Snezhinsk
  Snezhinsk
  Snezhinsk is a closed town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. Population: It was founded in 1957, and was known as Chelyabinsk-70 until 1991...
  
   (1991)
• Chibyu (1929) → Ukhta
  Ukhta
  Ukhta is an important industrial town in the Komi Republic of Russia. Population: Oil springs along the Ukhta River were already known in the 17th century. In the mid-19th century, industrialist M. K. Sidorov started to drill for oil in this area. It was one of the first oil wells in...
  
   (1939)
• Chinnay → Krasnogorsk
• Cranz → Zelenogradsk
  Zelenogradsk
  Zelenogradsk, is a town and the administrative center of Zelenogradsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, Located on the Sambian coastline near the Curonian Spit on the Baltic Sea...
  
   (1945)
• Darkehmen → Angerapp (1938) → Ozyorsk
  Ozyorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
  Ozyorsk is a town and the administrative center of Ozyorsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Angrapa River, southeast of Chernyakhovsk near the border with the Polish Warmia-Masuria Voivodship. Population: -Notable residents:...
  
   (1945)
• Dmitriyev → Dmitriyev-na-Svape → Dmitriyev
• Dmitrovka → Dmitrovsk → Dmitrovsk-Orlovsky → Dmitrovsk
  Dmitrovsk
  Dmitrovsk is a town and the administrative center of Dmitrovsky District of Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Obshcheritsa River near its confluence with the Nerussa, southwest of Oryol. Population:...
  
   (2005)
• Dokshukino (1913) → Nartkala
  Nartkala
  Nartkala is a town and the administrative center of Urvansky District of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia, located northeast of Nalchik. Population:...
  
   (1967)
• Dolgoprudny → Dirizhablstroy → Dolgoprudny
  Dolgoprudny
  Dolgoprudny is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located about north of Moscow city center. The town's name is derived from Russian "" —a long and narrow pond situated in the northeastern part of the town. The town's name is sometimes colloquially shortened as Dolgopa. Population:...
  
  
• Dvigatelstroy → Kaspiysk
  Kaspiysk
  Kaspiysk , until 1947 known as Dvigatelstroy , is a city in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located on the Caspian Sea, southeast of Makhachkala. Population: 43,000 ....
  
   (1947)
• Dzerzhinsky → Sorsk
  Sorsk
  Sorsk is a town in the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, located northwest of Abakan. Population: It was founded as the work settlement of Dzerzhinsky in the 1940s. It was renamed Sorsk and granted town status in 1966....
  
   (1966)
• Elektroperedacha → Elektrogorsk
  Elektrogorsk
  Elektrogorsk is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east from Moscow. Population: Elektrogorsk was founded in 1912 due to the construction of the first big peat-fired thermal power station in Russia, which would be called Elektroperedacha . The settlement was named after the power station...
  
  
• Enso (1887) → Svetogorsk
  Svetogorsk
  Svetogorsk is an industrial town in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated on the Karelian Isthmus, on the Vuoksa River. It is located one kilometer from the Russian–Finnish border, five kilometers from the Finnish town of Imatra, and 207 kilometers from St. Petersburg...
  
   (1948)
• Esutoru → Uglegorsk
  Uglegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast
  Uglegorsk is a coastal port town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the western coast of Sakhalin 359 km west of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Population: 13,396 ; 18,402 .-History:...
  
  
• Fischhausen → Primorsk
  Primorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
  Primorsk , prior to 1945 known by its German name Fischhausen, is an urban locality in Baltiysky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Vistula Lagoon. Population:...
  
   (1946)
• Friedland → Pravdinsk
  Pravdinsk
  Pravdinsk is a town and the administrative center of Pravdinsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Lava River, approximately east of Bagrationovsk...
  
   (1946)
• Galkino-Vrasskoye (1884) → Ochiai (1905) → Dolinsk
  Dolinsk
  Dolinsk is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, the administrative center of Dolinsky District. In Japanese, it is known as Ochiai . Population: 12,555 ; 15,653 .-Geography:...
  
   (1946)
• Goly Karamysh → Baltser → Krasnoarmeysk
  Krasnoarmeysk, Saratov Oblast
  Krasnoarmeysk is a town in Saratov Oblast, Russia, located south of Saratov. Population: It was founded in 1764—1766 as the German colony of Baltser . The other name of the colony was Goly Karamysh , after the river on which it was located. In 1914, the settlement was officially renamed Goly...
  
  
• Gorodetsk → Bezhetsk
  Bezhetsk
  Bezhetsk is a town in Tver Oblast, Russia, located on the Mologa River at its confluence with the Ostrechina River. It serves as the administrative center of Bezhetsky District, although it is not administratively a part of it. Population: 29,000 ....
  
   (1766)
• Gorodok → Zakamensk
  Zakamensk
  Zakamensk is a town and the administrative center of Zakamensky District of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located on the Dzhida River southwest of Ulan-Ude and from the Mongolian border. Population: -History:...
  
   (1959)
• Grushyovskaya → Gornoye Grushyovskoye → Alexandrovsk-Grushyovsky → Shakhty
  Shakhty
  Shakhty is a city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the southeastern spur of Donetsk mountain ridge, northeast of Rostov-on-Don. Its population was 240,152 per the preliminary results of the 2010 Census; up from 222,592 recorded in the 2002 Census....
  
  
• Gukovsky → Gukovo
  Gukovo
  Gukovo is a mining town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located close to the border with Ukraine. Population: At , Gukovo is the highest elevated town in Rostov Oblast.Gukovo is also notable for being one of the few rally-racing clubs in the south of Russia....
  
  
• Gumbinnen → Gusev
  Gusev
  Gusev is a town and the administrative center of Gusevsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Pissa and Krasnaya Rivers, near the border with Poland and Lithuania, east of Chernyakhovsk. Population: -History:...
  
  
• Gundorovka → Donetsk
  Donetsk, Russia
  Donetsk , known as Gundorovka until 1955, is a town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the Seversky Donets River. Population: 38,000 ....
  
  
• Gzhatsk → Gagarin
• Heiliegenbeil → Mamonovo
  Mamonovo
  Mamonovo , prior to 1945 known by its German name Heiligenbeil, is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Population: Mamonovo is named after a Soviet Commander, Nikolai Vasilyevich Mamonov , killed in action near Pułtusk on 26 October 1944, who was posthumously given the title Hero of the Soviet...
  
  
• Heinrichswalde → Slavsk
  Slavsk
  Slavsk, prior to 1945 known by its German name Heinrichswalde, is a town and the administrative center of Slavsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located to the west of Sovetsk. The town has a railway station on the Sovetsk-Kaliningrad railroad. Population:...
  
  
• Iletskaya Zashchita → Iletsk → Iletskoye → Iletskaya Zashchita → Sol-Iletsk
  Sol-Iletsk
  Sol-Iletsk is a town in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Ilek River , south of Orenburg. Population: 22,000 ; 11,802 ....
  
  
• Iman → Dalnerechensk
  Dalnerechensk
  Dalnerechensk is a town in Primorsky Krai, Russia. Population: It was originally known as Iman , but its Russian name was changed to Dalnerechensk in 1972, as part of a general campaign of asserting Soviet sovereignty in the region...
  
  
• Insterburg → Chernyakhovsk
  Chernyakhovsk
  Chernyakhovsk is a town and the administrative center of Chernyakhovsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Instruch and the Angrapa Rivers, forming the Pregolya...
  
  
• Ivanovo-Voznesensk → Ivanovo
• Izhevsky Zavod → Izhevsk → Ustinov → Izhevsk
  Izhevsk
  Izhevsk is the capital city of the Udmurt Republic, Russia, situated on the Izh River in the Western Urals. Population: From 1984 to 1987 Izhevsk carried the name Ustinov |Minister of Defense of the USSR]], Marshal of the Soviet Union, Dmitry Ustinov). The city is an important industrial center,...
  
  
• Izhma → Sosnogorsk
  Sosnogorsk
  Sosnogorsk is a town in the Komi Republic, Russia, located on the Izhma River. Population: Municipally, it is incorporated as Sosnogorsk Municipal District ....
  
  
• Kainsk → Kuybyshev
• Kalata → Kirovgrad
  Kirovgrad
  Kirovgrad is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Population: -History:The settlement Kalatay was, according to various sources, founded in 1661, 1663, or 1675...
  
  
• Kaliningrad → Korolyov
  Korolyov (city)
  Korolyov or Korolev is an industrial city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, well known as the cradle of Soviet and Russian space exploration. It was originally founded as Kaliningrad in 1938 by Vasily Boldyrev, Naum Nosovsky, and Mikhail Loginov as the leading Soviet center for production of anti-tank...
  
  
• Kamen → Kamen-na-Obi
  Kamen-na-Obi
  Kamen-na-Obi , known until 1933 as Kamen , is a town in Altai Krai, Russia, located on the left bank of the Ob River northwest of Barnaul. Population: 36,000 ....
  
  
• Kamenskaya → Kamensk-Shakhtinsky
  Kamensk-Shakhtinsky
  Kamensk-Shakhtinsky is a town in Rostov Oblast, located on the Seversky Donets River. It was founded by Cossack settlers in 1686 and was granted town status in 1927...
  
  
• Kamensky Zavod → Kamensk-Uralsky
  Kamensk-Uralsky
  Kamensk-Uralsky is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kamenka and Iset Rivers . Population: 173,000 ; 51,000 .The mayor of the city is Mikhail Astakhov.-History:...
  
  
• Kamyshin → Dmitriyevsk → Kamyshin
  Kamyshin
  Kamyshin is a city in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volgograd Reservoir of the Volga River, in the estuary of the Kamyshinka River. Population: 101,000 ; 24,000 ....
  
  
• Kasivabora → Severo-Kurilsk
  Severo-Kurilsk
  Severo-Kurilsk is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It is situated in the northern part of the Kuril Islands, on the island of Paramushir. Population: 2,592 ; 5,180 .-History:...
  
  
• Kaspiysky → Lagan
  Lagan, Russia
  Lagan is a town and the administrative center of Lagansky District of the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia, located a few kilometers from the Caspian Sea. Population: In terms of population, it is the second biggest town in the republic after the capital Elista.The town was founded in 1870. Town...
  
  
• Khabarovka → Khabarovsk
  Khabarovsk
  Khabarovsk is the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some from the Chinese border. It is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Vladivostok. The city became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia...
  
  
• Kharovsky → Kharovsk
  Kharovsk
  Kharovsk is a town and the administrative center of Kharovsky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia,, located on the Kubena River north of Vologda. Kharovsk also serves as the administrative center of Kharovsky Selsoviet which it is administratively not part of. Municipally, it is incorporated as a...
  
  
• Khibinogorsk → Kirovsk, Murmansk Oblast
  Kirovsk, Murmansk Oblast
  Kirovsk , known as Khibinogorsk until 1934, is a town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located at the spurs of the Khibiny Massif on the shores of the Lake Bolshoy Vudyavr, south of Murmansk...
  
  
• Khlynov → Vyatka → Kirov
  Kirov, Kirov Oblast
  Kirov , formerly known as Vyatka and Khlynov, is a city in northeastern European Russia, on the Vyatka River, and the administrative center of Kirov Oblast. Population: -History:...
  
  
• Khonto → Nevelsk
  Nevelsk
  Nevelsk is a port town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. Population 18,639 .-Geography:The town is located on the southwest coast of Sakhalin, 123 km from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, on the Sea of Japan.-History:...
  
  
• Khotchino → Gatchina → Trotsk (1923) → Krasnogvardeysk (1929) → Gatchina
  Gatchina
  Gatchina is a town and the administrative center of Gatchinsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located south of St. Petersburg by the road leading to Pskov...
  
   (1944)
• Khrushchyovskaya → Uzlovaya
  Uzlovaya
  Uzlovaya is a town and the administrative center of Uzlovsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia. Population: It was founded in 1873 as a railway station Khrushchyovskaya . It was renamed Uzlovaya in 1877, and granted town status in 1938. The station connects three important railway directions:...
  
  
• Kiyskoye → Mariinsk
  Mariinsk
  Mariinsk is a town in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located on the Kiya River northeast of Kemerovo. Population: 39,700 .It was founded in the 18th century as the village of Kiyskoye . In 1856, it was granted town status and renamed Mariinsk after Empress Maria, consort of Alexander II, one...
  
  
• Kodinsky → Kodinsk
  Kodinsk
  Kodinsk is a town and the administrative center of Kezhemsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Angara River, north of Krasnoyarsk. Population:...
  
  
• Kolchugino → Lenino → Leninsk-Kuznetsky
  Leninsk-Kuznetsky
  Leninsk-Kuznetsky , known as Kolchugino until 1925, is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located on both banks of the Inya River . Population: 128,000 ; 83,000 ; 20,000 ....
  
  
• Komsomolsky → Yugorsk
  Yugorsk
  Yugorsk is a town in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, situated in the northwestern part of the East-West lowland, from Khanty-Mansiysk. Population: Area: . Postal code: 628260. International dialing code: 34675....
  
  
• Korela → Keksgolm → Priozyorsk
• Korsakovsky Post → Otomari → Korsakov
  Korsakov (town)
  Korsakov is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It is the administrative center of Korsakovsky District. Population: 35,079 ; The town is located some south from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, at the southern end of Sakhalin Island, on the coast of the Salmon Cove in the Aniva Bay.-History:Little is known...
  
  
• Kozlov → Michurinsk
  Michurinsk
  Michurinsk , before 1932—Kozlov , is the second most populous town in Tambov Oblast, Russia. Population: It was founded in 1635 at the northern end of the emerging Belgorod Line. A 25-km earthen wall was built eastward across the open steppe effectively blocking the Nogai Trail, a Tatar raiding...
  
  
• Königsberg → Kaliningrad
  Kaliningrad
  Kaliningrad is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea...
  
  
• Krasnaya Sloboda → Krasnoslobodsk
  Krasnoslobodsk, Volgograd Oblast
  Krasnoslobodsk is a town in Sredneakhtubinsky District of Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Volga River across from Volgograd. Population:...
  
  
• Krasnoflotsky → Krasnoarmeysky → Krasnoarmeysk
  Krasnoarmeysk, Moscow Oblast
  Krasnoarmeysk is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Vorya River northeast of Moscow. Population: The town grew from the village of Muromtsevo , where a textile factory was established in 1834...
  
  
• Krasnoyarsk-26 → Zheleznogorsk
• Kremlyov → Sarov
  Sarov
  Sarov is a closed town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Until 1995 it was known as Kremlyov ., while from 1946 to 1991 it was called Arzamas-16 . The town is off limits to foreigners as it is the Russian center for nuclear research. Population: -History:The history of the town can be divided...
  
  
• Krestov Brod → Roshal
  Roshal (town)
  Roshal is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Voymega River east of Moscow. Population: Roshal was founded in 1916 as a settlement of Krestov Brod . It was renamed Roshal in 1917 in honor of a Bolshevik Semyon Roshal and granted town status in 1940....
  
  
• Kseniyevsky → Asino
  Asino
  Asino is a town and the administrative center of Asinovsky District of Tomsk Oblast, Russia. Population: -History:It was founded in 1896 as Kseniyevsky transmigratory settlement; in 1930 the construction of the railway Tomsk–Kseniyevskoye started...
  
  
• Kudelka → Asbest
  Asbest
  Asbest is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Bolshoy Reft River on the eastern slopes of the Urals, northeast of Yekaterinburg. Population: Postal code: 624260. International dialing code: +7 ....
  
  
• Kukarka → Sovetsk
  Sovetsk, Kirov Oblast
  Sovetsk , formerly Kukarka , is a town and the administrative center of Sovetsky District of Kirov Oblast, Russia. Population: In the 12th century, Kukarka was a capital of the local principality of Chumbylat, a renowned Mari leader and warrior. The town was occupied in 1594 by Russians during...
  
  
• Kurgannaya → Kurganinsk
  Kurganinsk
  Kurganinsk is a town and the administrative center of Kurganinsky District of Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Bolshaya Laba River east of Krasnodar. Population:...
  
  
• Kushvinsky Zavod → Kushva
  Kushva
  Kushva is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, situated in the Ural Mountains near Yekaterinburg. Population: -History:Originally a mining town founded in 1735 at the Blagodat Mountain to explore its iron ore deposits, it was granted town status in 1926 and was then renamed from Kushvinsky Zavod ...
  
  
• Kuznetsk → Novokuznetsk → Stalinsk → Novokuznetsk
  Novokuznetsk
  Novokuznetsk is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. It serves as the administrative center of Novokuznetsky District, but it is not administratively a part of it...
  
  
• Kuznetsovo → Konakovo
  Konakovo
  Konakovo is a town and the administrative center of Konakovsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of Ivankovo Reservoir . Population: It was founded in 1806 and was granted town status in 1937....
  
  
• Labiau → Polessk
  Polessk
  Polessk , prior to 1945 known by its German name Labiau is a town and the administrative center of Polessky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Population: 4,744 ....
  
  
• Labinskaya → Labinsk
  Labinsk
  Labinsk is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Bolshaya Laba River southeast of Krasnodar and southwest of Armavir. Population: 53,000 .-History:...
  
  
• Lakinsky → Lakinsk
  Lakinsk
  Lakinsk is a town in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Klyazma River, southwest of Vladimir. Population: Lakinsk grew out of the village Undol , which was in the same area as the modern town and is documented as far back as the end of the 15th century. In 1889, a...
  
  
• Laptevo → Yasnogorsk
  Yasnogorsk, Tula Oblast
  Yasnogorsk is a town and the administrative center of Yasnogorsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the Vashana River , north of Tula. Population:...
  
  
• Lazdinay → Lazdenen → Krasnoznamensk
• Lermontovsky → Lermontov
• Likhvin → Chekalin
  Chekalin
  Chekalin , formerly known as Likhvin is a town in Suvorovsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Oka River. Population: It is the least populous inhabited locality in Russia with the town status....
  
  
• Lopasnya → Chyornoye Ozero → Chekhov
  Chekhov, Moscow Oblast
  Chekhov is a town and the administrative center of Chekhovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia. Before 1954, it was named Lopasnya , after the Lopasnya River. Population: 56,000 ....
  
  
• Losinaya Sloboda → Losino-Petrovsky
  Losino-Petrovsky
  Losino-Petrovsky is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Vorya and Klyazma Rivers northeast of Moscow. Population:...
  
  
• Lyantorsky → Lyantor
  Lyantor
  Lyantor is a town in Surgutsky District of Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the Pim River , northeast of Khanty-Mansiysk. Population:...
  
  
• Lyutoga → Rudaka → Aniva
  Aniva
  Aniva is a coastal town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the coast of Aniva Bay in southern Sakhalin on the Lyutoga River 37 km south of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Population: 8,084 ; 8,905 .-History:...
  
  
• Maoka (Mauka) → Kholmsk
  Kholmsk
  Kholmsk is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, the administrative center of Kholmsky District. Population: 35,141 .-History:The town was founded in 1870 as a military post. After the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, the town was transferred to Japanese control, along with the rest of southern...
  
  
• Mechetnaya → Nikolayevsk → Pugachyov
  Pugachyov
  Pugachyov is a town in Saratov Oblast, Russia, located on the Bolshoy Irgiz River , northeast of Saratov. Population: It was founded as the sloboda of Mechetnaya in 1764 by Old Believers who returned from Poland. In 1835, it was granted town status and renamed Nikolayevsk , after the ruling Tsar...
  
  
• Medvezhyya Gora → Medvezhyegorsk
  Medvezhyegorsk
  Medvezhyegorsk , formerly known as Medvezhya Gora and Karhumäki, is a town and the administrative center of Medvezhyegorsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia. Population: 15,800 ....
  
  
• Melekess → Dimitrovgrad
  Dimitrovgrad
  Dimitrovgrad is the name of three towns in Europe:* Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria* Dimitrovgrad, Russia* Dimitrovgrad, SerbiaAll three were named after Georgi Dimitrov....
  
  
• Mikhaylovskoye → Shpakovskoye → Mikhaylovsk
  Mikhaylovsk, Stavropol Krai
  Mikhaylovsk is a town and the administrative center of Shpakovsky District of Stavropol Krai, Russia, located along the Tashla River, northeast of Stavropol...
  
  
• Mikhaylovsky Zavod → Mikhaylovsk
  Mikhaylovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast
  Mikhaylovsk is a town in Nizhneserginsky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of Mikhaylovsky Pond southwest of Yekaterinburg. Population:...
  
  
• Mikoyan-Shakhar → Klukhori → Karachayevsk
  Karachayevsk
  Karachayevsk is a town in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia, located on the Kuban River in the Caucasus Mountains. Population: It was founded in 1929 as Georgievskoye and was soon renamed after Anastas Mikoyan as Mikoyan-Shahar...
  
  
• Mukhtuya → Lensk
  Lensk
  Lensk is a town and the administrative center of Lensky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the left bank of the Lena River, approximately west of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. Population: -History:...
  
  
• Muravlenkovsky → Muravlenko
  Muravlenko
  Muravlenko is a town in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located southeast of Salekhard. Population: It was founded as the oil-extracting settlement of Muravlenkovsky in 1984. It was granted town status on August 6, 1990....
  
  
• Mysovaya → Mysovsk → Babushkin
• Naberezhnye Chelny → Brezhnev → Naberezhnye Chelny
  Naberezhnye Chelny
  Naberezhnye Chelny is the second largest city in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.A major industrial center, Naberezhnye Chelny stands on the Kama River some 225 km east of Kazan near Nizhnekamsk Reservoir. It serves as the administrative center of Tukayevsky District, although it is not...
  
  
• Nadezhdinsk → Kabakovsk → Nadezhdinsk → Serov
• Naykhoro → Gornozavodsk
• Nazyvayevskaya → Nazyvayevka → Nazyvayevsk
  Nazyvayevsk
  Nazyvayevsk is a town in Omsk Oblast, Russia, located west of Omsk. Population: It is a transfer point on the northern branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway between the Western Siberian and Sverdlovsk railroads....
  
  
• Neuhausen → Guryevsk
  Guryevsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
  Guryevsk is a town and the administrative center of Guryevsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Kaliningrad. Population: -History:...
  
  
• Nevdubstroy → Kirovsk
  Kirovsk, Leningrad Oblast
  Kirovsk is a town and the administrative center of Kirovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Neva River, east of St. Petersburg. Population:...
  
  
• Nevyansky Zavod → Nevyansk
  Nevyansk
  Nevyansk is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Neyva River on the eastern slope of the Middle Urals, north of Yekaterinburg. Population: 29,800 ....
  
  
• Nezametny → Aldan
  Aldan, Russia
  Aldan is a gold-mining town and the administrative center of Aldansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia. Population: -Geography:Aldan is situated in the Aldan highlands, about south of the republic's capital of Yakutsk in the Aldan River basin, on the stream Orto-Sala near its mouth in the...
  
  
• Nikolayevsky → Nikolayevsk → Nikolayevsk-na-Amure
• Nikolo-Pestrovka → Nikolo-Pestrovsky → Nikolsk
  Nikolsk, Penza Oblast
  Nikolsk is a town and the administrative center of Nikolsky District of Penza Oblast, Russia, located on the Vyrgan River northeast of Penza. Population:...
  
  
• Nikolskoye → Nikolsk → Nikolsk-Ussuriysky → Voroshilov → Ussuriysk
  Ussuriysk
  Ussuriysk is a city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located in the fertile valley of the Razdolnaya River, north of Vladivostok and about from both the Chinese border and the Pacific Ocean. Population: -Medieval history:...
  
  
• Nikolsky Khutor → Sursk
  Sursk
  Sursk is a town in Gorodishchensky District of Penza Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Sura River, east of Penza. Population:...
  
  
• Nizhnetagilsky Zavod → Nizhny Tagil
  Nizhny Tagil
  Nizhny Tagil is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, situated east of the virtual border between Europe and Asia. Population: -History:...
  
  
• Nizhnevartovsky → Nizhnevartovsk
  Nizhnevartovsk
  Nizhnevartovsk is the second largest city in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located along the right bank of the Ob River. Population: 251,860 ; 239,044 ;...
  
  
• Nizhnevolzhsk → Narimanov
• Nizhny Novgorod → Gorky → Nizhny Novgorod
  Nizhny Novgorod
  Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with the population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg...
  
  
• Noda → Chekhov
• Nolinsk → Molotovsk → Nolinsk
  Nolinsk
  Nolinsk is a town and the administrative center of Nolinsky District of Kirov Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Voya River , south of Kirov. Population:...
  
  
• Novaya Derevnya → Alexandrovsky → Novonikolayevsky → Novonikolayevsk → Novosibirsk
  Novosibirsk
  Novosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia, with a population of 1,473,737 . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District...
  
  
• Novaya Pokrovka → Svoboda (1943) → Liski → Georgiu-Dezh (1965) → Liski
  Liski
  Liski is a town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia. Population: Liski was founded as Novaya Pokrovka in 1571 and renamed Svoboda in 1943, and after a period again as Liski, the city was renamed Georgiu-Dezh in 1965 for the Romanian communist leader, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, before returning to Liski again...
  
   (1990)
• Novgorod → Veliky Novgorod
  Veliky Novgorod
  Veliky Novgorod is one of Russia's most historic cities and the administrative center of Novgorod Oblast. It is situated on the M10 federal highway connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg. The city lies along the Volkhov River just below its outflow from Lake Ilmen...
  
   (1998)
• Novo-Mariinsk → Anadyr
  Anadyr (town)
  Anadyr is a port town and the administrative centre of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the extreme north-eastern region of Russia. It is at the mouth of the Anadyr River, on the tip of the southern promontory that sticks out into Anadyrskiy Liman...
  
  
• Novoalexandrovskaya → Novoalexandrovsk
  Novoalexandrovsk
  Novoalexandrovsk is a town and the administrative center of Novoalexandrovsky District of Stavropol Krai, Russia, located on the bank of the Rasshevatka River, southwest of Stavropol. Population:...
  
  
• Novokuybyshevsky → Novokuybyshevsk
  Novokuybyshevsk
  Novokuybyshevsk is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia, located on the western bank of the Volga River, away from it. Population: Established in 1946, it was granted town status in 1952...
  
  
• Novonikolayevsk → Novosibirsk
  Novosibirsk
  Novosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia, with a population of 1,473,737 . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District...
  
  
• Novopavlovskaya → Novopavlovsk
  Novopavlovsk
  Novopavlovsk is a town and the administrative center of Kirovsky District of Stavropol Krai, Russia, located on the left bank of the Kura River. Population: It was founded in 1777....
  
  
• Novotroitsk → Baley
  Baley
  Baley is a town and the administrative center of Baleysky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, located on the Unda River east of Chita...
  
  
• Novovoronezhsky → Novovoronezh
  Novovoronezh
  Novovoronezh is a town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Don River south of Voronezh. The Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant is located there. Population: -External links:**...
  
  
• Novy Zay → Zainsk
  Zainsk
  Zainsk is a town in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the Stepnoy Zay River , east of Kazan. It serves as the administrative center of Zainsky District, although it is not administratively a part of it. Population:...
  
  
• Novyye Petushki → Petushki
  Petushki
  Petushki is a town and the administrative center of Petushinsky District of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Klyazma River, west of Vladimir on the Moscow–Nizhny Novgorod railway and motorway. Population:...
  
  
• Nyakh → Nyagan
  Nyagan
  Nyagan is a town in the northwestern part of Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, situated near the Ob River and northwest of Khanty-Mansiysk. It is named after the Nyagan-Yugan River, a tributary of the Ob River. Population: -Economy and history:...
  
  
• Obdorsk → Salekhard
  Salekhard
  -International relations:-Twin towns/sister cities:Salekhard is twinned with:*Azov, Rostov Oblast, Russia-External links:*...
  
  
• Olensk → Vilyuysk
  Vilyuysk
  Vilyuysk is a town and the administrative center of Vilyuysky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located about from Yakutsk on the Vilyuy River...
  
  
• Olkhovsky → Artyomovsk
  Artyomovsk
  Artyomovsk is a town in Kuraginsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located south of Krasnoyarsk. Population: It was founded in 1700 as the settlement of Olkhovka . In 1860, it was referred to as a mining settlement of Olkhovsky . It was granted town status in 1939....
  
  
• Olzheras → Mezhdurechensk
  Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast
  Mezhdurechensk is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Population: -Administrative and municipal status:Administratively, it is incorporated as the city of oblast significance of Mezhdurechensk—an administrative unit with a status equal to that of the districts.Municipally, the territories of the...
  
  
• Omutninsky Zavod → Omutninsk
  Omutninsk
  Omutninsk is a town and the administrative center of Omutninsky District of Kirov Oblast, Russia. Population: It was first mentioned in 1773; town status was granted to it in 1921.The Institute of Applied Biochemistry is situated near Omutninsk...
  
  
• Oraniyenbaum → Lomonosov
  Lomonosov, Russia
  Lomonosov is a municipal town in Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, situated on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, west of St. Petersburg proper. Population:...
  
  
• Orenburg → Chkalov → Orenburg
  Orenburg
  Orenburg is a city on the Ural River and the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It lies southeast of Moscow, very close to the border with Kazakhstan. Population: 546,987 ; 549,361 ; Highest point: 154.4 m...
  
  
• Oreshek → Nöteborg → Shlisselburg → Petrokrepost → Shlisselburg
  Shlisselburg
  Shlisselburg is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated at the head of the Neva River on Lake Ladoga, east of St. Petersburg. From 1944 to 1992, it was known as Petrokrepost...
  
  
• Orlov → Khalturin → Orlov
  Orlov, Russia
  Orlov is a town and the administrative center of Orlovsky District of Kirov Oblast, Russia, situated on the right bank of the Vyatka River, west of Kirov. Population: It was first mentioned in 1459. Town status was granted to it in 1780...
  
  
• Osinovka → Osinniki
  Osinniki
  Osinniki , known until 1938 as Osinovka , is a town in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Population:...
  
  
• Ostyako-Vogulsk → Khanty-Mansiysk
  Khanty-Mansiysk
  Khanty-Mansiysk experiences a subarctic climate . The climate is extreme, with temperatures as low as -49 C° and as high as 34.5 C°. On average, however, the region is very cold, with an average tempurature of -1.1 C°...
  
  
• Pavlovo → Pavlovsky Posad
  Pavlovsky Posad
  Pavlovsky Posad is a town and the administrative center of Pavlovo-Posadsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located from Moscow, at the confluence of the Klyazma and the Vokhna Rivers. Population: The Moscow–Vladimir railway goes through the town....
  
  
• Pavlovsk → Slutsk → Pavlovsk
• Pechory → Petseri → Pechory
  Pechory
  Pechory : Petseri; ) is a town and the administrative center of Pechorsky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia. Population: The population includes a few hundred ethnic Estonians.The town is famous for the Russian Orthodox Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery....
  
  
• Pereyaslavl-Ryazansky → Ryazan
  Ryazan
  Ryazan is a city and the administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Oka River southeast of Moscow. Population: The strategic bomber base Dyagilevo is just west of the city, and the air base of Alexandrovo is to the southeast as is the Ryazan Turlatovo Airport...
  
  
• Perm → Molotov → Perm
  Perm
  Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov ....
  
  
• Permskoye → Komsomolsk-na-Amure
• Pervomaysky → Novodvinsk
  Novodvinsk
  Novodvinsk is a town in the north of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Northern Dvina River, south of Arkhangelsk. Administratively, it is incorporated as a town of oblast significance , while municipally, it is incorporated as Novodvinsk Urban Okrug...
  
  
• Pesochnya → Kirov
  Kirov, Kaluga Oblast
  Kirov , formerly known as Pesochnya , is a town in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Bolva River southwest of Kaluga. Population: 31,888 ; 38,893 ; 29,000 . It is home to Shaykovka air base....
  
  
• Peterhof → Petrodvorets → Petergof
• Petropavlovsky → Petropavlovsky Port → Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
  Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
  Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is the main city and the administrative, industrial, scientific, and cultural center of Kamchatka Krai, Russia. Population: .-History:It was founded by Danish navigator Vitus Bering, in the service of the Russian Navy...
  
  
• Petropavlovsky → Severouralsk
  Severouralsk
  Severouralsk in the Northern Urals) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Vagran River at its confluence with the Kolonga River, north of Yekaterinburg. Population: The town is served by Severouralsk Airport....
  
  
• Petrovskoye → Petrovsk-Port → Makhachkala
  Makhachkala
  -Twin towns/sister cities:Makhachkala is twinned with: Sfax, Tunisia Siping, China Spokane, United States Vladikavkaz, Russia Yalova, Turkey Ndola, Zambia-See also:*...
  
  
• Petrovskoye → Svetlograd
  Svetlograd
  Svetlograd is a town and the administrative center of Petrovsky District of Stavropol Krai, Russia, located on the Kalaus River, northeast of Stavropol. Population:...
  
  
• Petrovsky Zavod → Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky
• Pillau → Baltiysk
  Baltiysk
  Baltiysk , prior to 1945 known by its German name Pillau , is a seaport town and the administrative center of Baltiysky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, located on the northern part of the Vistula Spit, on the shore of the Strait of Baltiysk separating the Vistula Bay from the Gdańsk Bay. Baltiysk...
  
  
• Pokrovskaya → Pokrovsk → Engels
  Engels (city)
  Engels is a city in Saratov Oblast, Russia. It is a port on the Volga River, located across from Saratov and connected to it with a bridge . Population: 163,000 ; 130,000 ; 91,000 ; 22,000 ....
  
  
• Pokrovskoye → Pokrovsk
  Pokrovsk, Sakha Republic
  Pokrovsk is a town in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the left bank of the Lena River, southwest of Yakutsk. Population: -Geography:...
  
  
• Porechye → Demidov
• Poshekhonye → Poshekhonye-Volodarsk → Poshekhonye
  Poshekhonye
  Poshekhonye is a town and the administrative center of Poshekhonsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Yaroslavl. It stands on the Sogozha River . Population:...
  
  
• Prishib → Leninsk
  Leninsk, Volgograd Oblast
  Leninsk is a town and the administrative center of Leninsky District of Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Akhtuba River east of Volgograd. Population:...
  
  
• Protva → Zhukov
  Zhukov (town)
  Zhukov is a town and the administrative center of Zhukovsky District of Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Ugodka River northwest of Kaluga. Population:...
  
  
• Pryoysish-Elau → Bagrationovsk
  Bagrationovsk
  Bagrationovsk is a town and the administrative center of Bagrationovsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located south of Kaliningrad. Population: -History:...
  
  
• Pyora → Gondatti → Vladimiro-Shimanovsky → Shimanovsk
  Shimanovsk
  Shimanovsk is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: 22,267 .-Geography:Shimanovsk is located on the Bolshaya Pyora River, a right-hand tributary of the Zeya, some 250 km northwest of Blagoveshchensk.-History:...
  
  
• Raduga → Vladimir-30 → Raduzhny
  Raduzhny, Vladimir Oblast
  Raduzhny is a closed town in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the Pol, Buzha, and Uzhbol Rivers, south of Vladimir. Population: It was established in 1971 as a settlement for the workers of a defense industry design bureau. In 1977, it was granted work settlement status and named Vladimir-30...
  
  
• Ragnit → Neman
  Neman (town)
  Neman is a town and the administrative center of Nemansky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the historic Prussia region, east of the town of Sovetsk, on the steep southern bank of the Neman River, where it currently forms the border with the Klaipėda Region in...
  
  
• Ranenburg → Chaplygin
  Chaplygin, Lipetsk Oblast
  Chaplygin , formerly Ranenburg , is a town and the administrative center of Chaplyginsky District of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Stanovaya Ryasa and Yagodnaya Ryasa Rivers, north of Lipetsk. Population:...
  
  
• Rastyapino → Dzerzhinsk
  Dzerzhinsk, Russia
  Dzerzhinsk is a city in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, situated along the Oka River, about east of Moscow. Population: The city is named after Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, a Polish Bolshevik leader who was the first head of the Cheka ....
  
  
• Rauschen → Svetlogorsk
  Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
  Svetlogorsk , prior to 1945 known by its German name Rauschen, is a coastal resort town and the administrative center of Svetlogorsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the coast of the Baltic Sea on the Sambian Peninsula. Population:...
  
  
• Raychikha → Raychikhinsk
  Raychikhinsk
  Raychikhinsk is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia. 2002 population—24,498.-Geography:Raychikhinsk lies in the Zeya-Bureya basin in the Russian Far East, around 40 km from the Amur River and the border to China...
  
  
• Romanov-Borisoglebsk → Tutayev
  Tutayev
  Tutayev is a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. Population: Before 1918, the settlement was called Romanov-Borisoglebsk , and before 1822, when an order of the Tsar united them, there were two separate towns: Romanov and Borisoglebsk . Romanov has existed since the 14th century and...
  
  
• Romanov-na-Murmane → Murmansk
  Murmansk
  Murmansk is a city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It serves as a seaport and is located in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland...
  
  
• Romanovsky → Kropotkin
  Kropotkin, Krasnodar Krai
  Kropotkin is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Kuban River. Population: 70,000 ; 42,000 ; 27,000 ....
  
  
• Saint Petersburg (1703) → Petrograd (1914) → Leningrad (1924) → Saint Petersburg (Sankt-Peterburg)
  Saint Petersburg
  Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
  
   (1991)
• Samara → Kuybyshev → Samara
  Samara, Russia
  Samara , is the sixth largest city in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers. Samara is the administrative center of Samara Oblast. Population: . The metropolitan area of Samara-Tolyatti-Syzran within Samara Oblast...
  
  
• Selyutora → Siritoru → Makarov
• Semyonovka → Arsenyev
  Arsenyev
  Arsenyev is a town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located about northeast of Vladivostok. Population: -History:The history of Arsenyev begins in 1895, when the settlement of Semyonovka was founded. The first settlement dwellers were the Old Believers. In 1901 the migrant peasants from what is now...
  
  
• Serdobol → Sortavala
  Sortavala
  Sortavala is a town in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located at the northern tip of Lake Ladoga. Population: It is an important station of the Vyborg-Joensuu railroad.-History:...
  
  
• Sereda → Furmanov
• Sergiyev Posad → Sergiyev → Zagorsk → Sergiyev Posad
  Sergiyev Posad
  Sergiyev Posad is a city and the administrative center of Sergiyevo-Posadsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia. It grew in the 15th century around one of the greatest of Russian monasteries, the Trinity Lavra established by St. Sergius of Radonezh. The town status was granted to it in 1742...
  
  
• Sergiyevskoye → Plavsk
  Plavsk
  Plavsk is a town and the administrative center of Plavsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the Plava River. Population:...
  
  
• Shakhty → Gusinoozyorsk
  Gusinoozyorsk
  Gusinoozyorsk is a town and the administrative center of Selenginsky District of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located on the northeastern shore of Lake Gusinoye, southwest of Ulan-Ude. Population: 13,800 .-History:...
  
  
• Sharypovskoye → Sharypovo → Chernenko → Sharypovo
  Sharypovo
  Sharypovo is a town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Beresh River , west of Krasnoyarsk. It serves as the administrative center of Sharypovsky District, although it is not administratively a part of it. Population:...
  
  
• Shcheglovo → Shcheglovsk → Kemerovo
  Kemerovo
  Kemerovo is an industrial city in Russia, situated on the Tom River, east-northeast of Novosibirsk. It is the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, located in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin...
  
  
• Shikhrany → Kanash
  Kanash
  Kanash is a town in the Chuvash Republic, Russia, located from the republic's capital city of Cheboksary at a major railway junction. It serves as the administrative center of Kanashsky District, although it is not administratively a part of it. Population: Area: .Kanash was founded in 1891...
  
  
• Shkotovo-17 → Tikhookeansky → Fokino
  Fokino, Primorsky Krai
  Fokino is a closed town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, situated on the coast of the Gulf of Peter the Great between Vladivostok and Nakhodka, on the Abrek Bay, about south of Vladivostok. Population: -History:...
  
  
• Sieklakhti → Lakhdenpokhya
  Lakhdenpokhya
  Lakhdenpokhya is a town and the administrative center of Lakhdenpokhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located west of Petrozavodsk on the Aurayoki River, and a railway station of the Vyborg-Joensuu railroad. Population:...
  
  
• Simbirsk → Ulyanovsk
  Ulyanovsk
  Ulyanovsk The city is the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin , for whom it is named.-History:Simbirsk was founded in 1648 by the boyar Bogdan Khitrovo. The fort of "Simbirsk" was strategically placed on a hill on the Western bank of the Volga River...
  
  
• Skalisty → Gadzhiyevo
  Gadzhiyevo
  Gadzhiyevo is a closed town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. The town was also known as Yagelnaya Guba until 1967, Skalisty from 1981 to 1994, although it was often referred to as Murmansk-130 . The name Skalisty was made official in 1994, but in 1999 the town was renamed back to Gadzhiyevo—the name...
  
  
• Slavyanskaya → Slavyansk-na-Kubani
  Slavyansk-na-Kubani
  Slavyansk-na-Kubani is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located in the Kuban river delta. Population: 56,000 .Slavyansk originated in the Middle Ages as Copa or Coparia, a Genoese trade outpost controlled by the Ghisolfi family...
  
  
• Solnechnogorsky → Solnechnogorsk
  Solnechnogorsk
  Solnechnogorsk is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, the administrative center of Solnechnogorsky District. It is situated on the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Highway and the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway, on the coast of Senezh Lake, north-west from Moscow. Population: Originally, there was a village...
  
  
• Sorochinskoye → Sorochinsk
  Sorochinsk
  Sorochinsk is a town in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, located on the Samara River , northwest of Orenburg. Population: It was founded in 1737 as the fortress of Sorochinskaya . It had been known as the village of Sorochinskoye since the 19th century. It was granted town status and renamed Sorochinsk...
  
  
• Spassk → Spassk-Tatarsky → Kuybyshev → Bolgar, Russia
• Spasskoye → Spassk → Spassk-Dalny
  Spassk-Dalny
  Spassk-Dalny , sometimes called Spassk, is a town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, situated on the Prikhankayskaya Flatland on the coast of Khanka Lake. Population:...
  
  
• Spasskoye → Spassk → Spassk-Ryazansky
  Spassk-Ryazansky
  Spassk-Ryazansky is a town and the administrative center of Spassky District of Ryazan Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of the Lake Spasskoye southeast of Ryazan. Population:...
  
  
• Stakhanovo → Zhukovsky
• Stalingrad→ Volgograd
  Volgograd
  Volgograd , formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River...
  
  
• Stallupönen → Nesterov
  Nesterov
  Nesterov is a town and the administrative center of Nesterovsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Population: -History:In the Middle Ages, the area in Old Prussia had been settled by the Nadruvian tribe of the Baltic Prussians. It was conquered by the Teutonic Knights about 1276 and...
  
  
• Stary Rogozhsky Yam → Bogorodsk → Noginsk
  Noginsk
  Noginsk is a town and the administrative center of Noginsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east of the MKAD ring road on the Klyazma River. Population:...
  
  
• Stavropol → Togliatti
  Tolyatti
  Tolyatti , also known as Togliatti, is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia. It serves as the administrative center of Stavropolsky District, although it is administratively separate from it...
  
  
• Stavropol → Voroshilovsk → Stavropol
  Stavropol
  -International relations:-Twin towns/sister cities:Stavropol is twinned with: Des Moines, United States Béziers, France Pazardzhik, Bulgaria-External links:* **...
  
  
• Stupinskaya → Elektrovoz → Stupino
  Stupino
  Stupino is a town and the administrative center of Stupinsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River south of Moscow. Population:...
  
  
• Suchansky Rudnik → Suchan → Partizansk
  Partizansk
  Partizansk is a town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located on a spur of the Sikhote-Alin mountains, about east of Vladivostok. Population: The town was formerly known as Suchan and Gamarnik.-Geography:...
  
  
• Sudostroy → Molotovsk → Severodvinsk
  Severodvinsk
  Severodvinsk is a city in the north of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located in the delta of the Northern Dvina River, west of Arkhangelsk. Administratively, it is incorporated as a town of oblast significance . Municipally, it is incorporated as Severodvinsk Urban Okrug. The city was founded as...
  
  
• Sundyr → Mariinsky Posad
  Mariinsky Posad
  Mariinsky Posad is a town and the administrative center of Mariinsko-Posadsky District of the Chuvash Republic, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, east of Cheboksary. Population:...
  
  
• Suyetikha → Biryusinsk
  Biryusinsk
  Biryusinsk is a town in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Biryusa River , northwest of Irkutsk. Administratively, Biryusinsk is under the jurisdiction of the nearby town of Tayshet. Population:...
  
  
• Sverdlovsk-45 → Lesnoy
  Lesnoy, Sverdlovsk Oblast
  Lesnoy is a closed town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located north of Yekaterinburg on the banks of the Tura River. Population: -History:...
  
  
• Svoboda → Liski → Georgiu-Dey → Liski
  Liski
  Liski is a town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia. Population: Liski was founded as Novaya Pokrovka in 1571 and renamed Svoboda in 1943, and after a period again as Liski, the city was renamed Georgiu-Dezh in 1965 for the Romanian communist leader, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, before returning to Liski again...
  
  
• Svobodny → Cherepanovo
  Cherepanovo
  Cherepanovo is a town and the administrative center of Cherepanovsky District of Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, located southeast of Novosibirsk. Population:...
  
  
• Svyatoy Krest → Prikumsk → Budyonnovsk → Prikumsk → Budyonnovsk
  Budyonnovsk
  Budyonnovsk , also spelled Budennovsk, is a town in Stavropol Krai, Russia. Previously, it was named Svyatoy Krest and Prikumsk...
  
  
• Syana → Kurilsk
  Kurilsk
  Kurilsk ; , Shana) is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, situated on the island of Iturup. It is the administrative center of Kurilsky District. Population: 2,233 ; 2,699 .-History:...
  
  
• Sysertsky Zavod → Sysert
  Sysert
  Sysert is a town and the administrative center of Sysertsky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Sysert River , south of Yekaterinburg. Population:...
  
  
• Taldom → Leninsk → Taldom
  Taldom
  Taldom is a town and the administrative center of Taldomsky District in the northern part of Moscow Oblast, Russia, situated north of Moscow, on a suburban railway connecting Moscow to Savyolovo. Population: The settlement was founded in 1677...
  
  
• Tapiau → Gvardeysk
  Gvardeysk
  Gvardeysk is a town and the administrative center of Gvardeysky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Pregolya River east of Kaliningrad. Population: -History:...
  
  
• Tashino → Pervomaysk
  Pervomaysk, Russia
  Pervomaysk is a town and the administrative center of Pervomaysky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located south of Nizhny Novgorod. Population: 16,000 .Until 1951 the town was known as Tashino....
  
  
• Temir-Khan-Shura → Buynaksk
  Buynaksk
  Buynaksk is a town in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located at the foothills of the Greater Caucasus on the Shura-Ozen River, southwest of the republic's capital Makhachkala. Population: 40,000 ....
  
  
• Terijoki → Zelenogorsk
  Zelenogorsk, Saint Petersburg
  Zelenogorsk , ' before 1948, is a municipal town in Kurortny District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg, Russia, located in part of the Karelian Isthmus on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, and a station on the St. Petersburg-Vyborg railroad. It is located about northwest of central Saint...
  
  
• Tetyukhe → Dalnegorsk
  Dalnegorsk
  Dalnegorsk is a town in Primorsky Krai, Russia. Population: It was formerly known from its founding in 1899 as Tetyukhe , until it was renamed in 1972 as part of a campaign to change any Chinese-derived placenames in the Primorsky Krai.-History:...
  
  
• Tikhmenevsky → Sikuka → Poronaysk
  Poronaysk
  Poronaysk is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the Poronay River some 288 km north of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. It is the administrative center of Poronaysky District. Population: 17,400 ; 17,954 ; 25,971 ....
  
  
• Tikhoretskaya → Tikhoretsk
  Tikhoretsk
  Tikhoretsk is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Population: The town is an important part of the southern rail network....
  
  
• Tilsit → Sovetsk
  Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
  Sovetsk , known by its historical German name of Tilsit in East Prussia before 1946, is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the south bank of the Neman River. Population: -History of Tilsit:...
  
  
• Tomarioru → Tomari
• Tomsk-7 → Seversk
  Seversk
  Seversk is a closed city in Tomsk Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Tomsk on the right bank of the Tom River. Population: Founded in 1949, it was known as Pyaty Pochtovy until 1954 and as Tomsk-7 until 1992. Town status was granted to it in 1956.The current Chair of the City Duma and Mayor...
  
  
• Toro → Shakhtyorsk
• Troitsa → Udomlya
  Udomlya
  Udomlya is a town and the administrative center of Udomelsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia, located north of Tver, on the Rybinsk–Bologoye railway. Population:...
  
  
• Troitsko-Zaozyornoye → Zaozyorny
• Troitskosavsk → Kyakhta
  Kyakhta
  Kyakhta is a town in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located on the Kyakhta River near the Russian-Mongolian border. Population: The town stands directly opposite the Mongolian border town of Altanbulag.-History:...
  
  
• Troitskoye → Troitsky → Troitsk
  Troitsk, Moscow Oblast
  Troitsk is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Desna River southwest of Moscow on the Kaluzhskoye Highway. Population: 39,874 ; 32,653 ;...
  
  
• Trongzund → Uuras → Trongzund → Vysotsk
  Vysotsk
  Vysotsk is a coastal town and a seaport in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus, on the eastern shore of the Bay of Vyborg, southwest of Vyborg and northwest of St. Petersburg. It hosts a base of the Russian Baltic Fleet and an oil terminal...
  
  
• Trotsk → Chapayevsk
  Chapayevsk
  Chapayevsk is a town in Samara Oblast, Russia, located from the city of Samara, on the right bank of the Chapayevka River . Population:...
  
  
• Truyevo-Naryshkino → Kuznetsk
  Kuznetsk
  Kuznetsk is a town in Penza Oblast, Russia, located east of Penza and west of Samara and the Volga River. Population: -External links:*...
  
  
• Tsaritsyn → Stalingrad → Volgograd
  Volgograd
  Volgograd , formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River...
  
  
• Tsarskoye Selo → Detskoye Selo → Pushkin
  Pushkin (town)
  Pushkin is a municipal town in Pushkinsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located south from the center of St. Petersburg proper, and its train station, Detskoye Selo, is directly connected by railway to the Vitebsky Rail Terminal of the city...
  
  
• Tsaryovokokshaysk → Krasnokokshaysk → Yoshkar-Ola
  Yoshkar-Ola
  Yoshkar-Ola is the capital city of the Mari El Republic, Russia. Population: Yoshkar-Ola means red city in Mari. The current name is the third to have been given to the city. The city was known as Tsaryovokokshaysk before 1919 and as Krasnokokshaysk between 1919 and 1927...
  
  
• Tsimlyanskaya → Tsimlyansk
  Tsimlyansk
  Tsimlyansk is a town and the administrative center of Tsimlyansky District of Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Don River, on the coast of Tsimlyansk Reservoir, northeast of Rostov-on-Don. Population:...
  
  
• Turyinsky → Krasnoturyinsk
  Krasnoturyinsk
  Krasnoturyinsk is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Turya River , north of Yekaterinburg. Population: It was one of the copper mining settlements established in 1758 on the Turya River. At the time, it was known as Turyinskiye Rudniki . Later it was known as Turyinsky...
  
  
• Tver → Kalinin → Tver
  Tver
  Tver is a city and the administrative center of Tver Oblast, Russia. Population: 403,726 ; 408,903 ;...
  
  
• Tyndinsky → Tynda
  Tynda
  Tynda is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia. It is an important railway junction, often referred to as the capital of the BAM. The name is of Evenk origin, tendy translating roughly as on the river bank. Population: -Geography:...
  
  
• Udinsk → Verhneudinsk → Ulan-Ude
  Ulan-Ude
  Ulan-Ude is the capital city of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located about southeast of Lake Baikal on the Uda River at its confluence with the Selenga...
  
  
• Ulala → Oyrot-Tura → Gorno-Altaysk
  Gorno-Altaysk
  Gorno-Altaysk is the capital town of the Altai Republic, Russia, situated east of Moscow. Population: This only town of the republic lies in a narrow Mayma Valley in the foothills of the Altay Mountains...
  
  
• Uralmedstroy → Krasnouralsk
  Krasnouralsk
  Krasnouralsk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Population: Cosmonaut Vitaliy Sevastyanov was born here.-History:It was established in 1832 with the discovery of gold....
  
  
• Usolye → Usolye-Sibirskoye
  Usolye-Sibirskoye
  Usolye-Sibirskoye is a town in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Angara River. Population: -History:It was founded in 1669 under the name Usolye, an archaic Russian word for a salt producing town, by Mikhalevs brothers, the Cossacks who had discovered salt deposits in a...
  
  
• Ust-Abakanskoye → Khakassk → Abakan
  Abakan
  Abakan is the capital city of the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, located in the central part of Minusinsk Depression, at the confluence of the Yenisei and Abakan Rivers. Population: -History:...
  
  
• Ust-Belokalitvenskaya → Belaya Kalitva
  Belaya Kalitva
  Belaya Kalitva is a town and the administrative center of Belokalitvinsky District of Rostov Oblast, Russia. Population: -External links:*...
  
  
• Ust-Katavsky Zavod → Ust-Katav
  Ust-Katav
  Ust-Katav is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Yuryuzan River. Population: -Transport:Ust-Katav is situated near the Transsiberian Railway, as well as the M5 "Ural" motorway.-Industry:...
  
  
• Ust-Medveditskaya → Serafimovich
  Serafimovich
  Serafimovich is a town and the administrative center of Serafimovichsky District of Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Don River, northwest of Volgograd. Population:...
  
  
• Ust-Sheksna → Rybansk → Rybnaya Sloboda → Rybnoy → Rybinsk → Shcherbakov → Rybinsk → Andropov → Rybinsk
  Rybinsk
  Rybinsk is the second largest city of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, which lies at the confluence of the Volga and Sheksna Rivers. Population: It is served by Rybinsk Staroselye airport.-Early history:...
  
  
• Ust Zeysky military post → Blagoveshchensk
  Blagoveshchensk
  Blagoveshchensk is a city and the administrative center of Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: -Early history of the region:The early residents of both sides of the Amur in the region of today's Blagoveshchensk were the Daurs and Duchers...
  
  
• Vasilyovo → Chkalovsk
  Chkalovsk, Russia
  Chkalovsk is a town and the administrative center of Chkalovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, situated on the right bank of the Volga River, northwest of Nizhny Novgorod. Population: -History:...
  
  
• Vayenga → Severomorsk
  Severomorsk
  Severomorsk is a closed town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located about north of Murmansk along the Kola Bay. Population: This is the main administrative base of the Russian Northern Fleet. Severomorsk has the largest drydock on the Kola Peninsula....
  
  
• Velikoknyazheskaya → Proletarskaya → Proletarsk
  Proletarsk
  Proletarsk is a town and the administrative center of Proletarsky District of Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the Rostov-Baku Line. The Manych River flows through the city. Population:...
  
  
• Velyaminovsky → Tuapse
  Tuapse
  Tuapse is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated on the northeast shore of the Black Sea, south of Gelendzhik and north of Sochi. It serves as the administrative center of Tuapsinsky District, although administratively it is separate from it...
  
  
• Verkhneudinsky → Verkhneudinsk → Ulan-Ude
  Ulan-Ude
  Ulan-Ude is the capital city of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located about southeast of Lake Baikal on the Uda River at its confluence with the Selenga...
  
  
• Vinodelnoye → Ipatovo
  Ipatovo
  Ipatovo is a town and the administrative center of Ipatovsky District of Stavropol Krai, Russia, located on the Kalaus River about northeast of Stavropol. Population:...
  
  
• Vladikavkaz → Ordzhonikidze → Dzaudzhikau → Ordzhonikidze → Vladikavkaz
  Vladikavkaz
  -Notable structures:In Vladikavkaz, there is a guyed TV mast, tall, built in 1961, which has six crossbars with gangways in two levels running from the mast structure to the guys.-Twin towns/sister cities:...
  
  
• Vladimirovka → Toyokhara → Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
  Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
  -Demographics:Most residents are ethnic Russians, but there also exists a sizable population of Koreans. Of the 43,000 Sakhalin Koreans, half are estimated to live in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, comprising roughly 12% of the city's population...
  
  
• Volkhovstroy → Volkhov
  Volkhov
  Volkhov is an industrial town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated east of St. Petersburg, on the Volkhov River. Population: -History:...
  
   (1940)
• Volodary → Volodarsk
  Volodarsk, Russia
  Volodarsk is a town and the administrative center of Volodarsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Seyma River west of Nizhny Novgorod. Population:...
  
  
• Vorontsovo-Alexandrovskoye → Sovetskoye → Zelenokumsk
  Zelenokumsk
  Zelenokumsk is a town and the administrative center of Sovetsky District of Stavropol Krai, Russia. The Kuma River flows through the town. Population:...
  
  
• Voskresenskoye → Voskresensk → Istra
  Istra
  Istra is a town and the administrative center of Istrinsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Istra River, west of Moscow, on the Moscow–Riga railway...
  
   (not to be confused with another Voskresensk
  Voskresensk
  Voskresensk is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located southeast from Moscow, on the shores of the Moskva River. Population: Town status was granted to Voskresensk in 1938.-Notable athletes:...
  
  )
• Voznesenskaya → Vereshchagino
• Vyborg → Viipuri → Vyborg
  Vyborg
  Vyborg is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of the Bay of Vyborg, to the northwest of St. Petersburg and south from Russia's border with Finland, where the Saimaa Canal enters the Gulf of Finland...
  
  
• Vyzhaikha → Krasnovishersk
  Krasnovishersk
  -History:The town grew out of the settlement of Vizhaikha . Since 1926, the town served as the 4th branch of the Solovki prison camp, and since 1929—as the independent management of the Vishera camps...
  
  
• Yakovlevskoye → Privolzhsk
  Privolzhsk
  Privolzhsk is a town and the administrative center of Privolzhsky District of Ivanovo Oblast, Russia, located on the Shacha River northeast of Ivanovo. Population:...
  
  
• Yama → Yamsky Gorodok → Yama → Yamburg → Kingisepp
  Kingisepp
  Kingisepp , formerly Yamburg , Yam , and Yama , is an ancient town and the administrative center of Kingiseppsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located along the Luga Riverw west of St. Petersburg, east of Narva, and south of the Gulf of Finland...
  
   (1922)
• Yauntlatgale → Abrene → Pytalovo
  Pytalovo
  Pytalovo is a town and the administrative center of Pytalovsky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia. Population: Pytalovo was part of independent Latvia as Abrene until Latvia was occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union...
  
  
• Yegorshino → Artyomovsky
  Artyomovsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast
  Artyomovsky is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Bobrovka River , northeast of Yekaterinburg. Population:...
  
  
• Yekaterinburg → Sverdlovsk → Yekaterinburg
  Yekaterinburg
  Yekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...
  
  
• Yekaterinodar → Krasnodar
  Krasnodar
  Krasnodar is a city in Southern Russia, located on the Kuban River about northeast of the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. It is the administrative center of Krasnodar Krai . Population: -Name:...
  
  
• Yekaterinenstadt (Baronsk) → Marxstadt → Marks
• Yuryuzansky Zavod → Yuryuzan
  Yuryuzan (town)
  Yuryuzan is a town in Katav-Ivanovsky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Yuryuzan River , from Chelyabinsk and from the closed town of Tryokhgorny. Population:...
  
  
• Zaozyorny-13 → Krasnoyarsk-45 → Zelenogorsk
  Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai
  Zelenogorsk is a closed town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It was formerly known as Krasnoyarsk-45 and was involved in enriching uranium for the Soviet nuclear program...
  
   (1992)
• Zarinskaya → Zarinsk
  Zarinsk
  Zarinsk is a town in Altai Krai, Russia, located on the Chumysh River east of Barnaul. Population: The railway station of Zarinskaya was established in 1952. It was granted urban-type settlement status in 1958 and town status in 1979....
  
  
• Zatishye → Elektrostal
  Elektrostal
  Elektrostal , known as Zatishye until 1938, is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east of Moscow. Population: 135,000 ; 123,000 ; 97,000 ; 43,000 . Town status was granted to it in 1938.-Industry:...
  
  
• Zavolzhye → Zavolzhsk
  Zavolzhsk
  Zavolzhsk is a town and the administrative center of Zavolzhsky District of Ivanovo Oblast, Russia. It is one of the towns of the Golden Ring and is situated on the left bank of the Volga River , opposite Kineshma. The town is located about downstream of Kostroma and northeast of Ivanovo...
  
  
• Zavoyko → Yelizovo
  Yelizovo
  Yelizovo is a town in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located on the Avacha River northwest of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Population: Founded in 1848 as the village of Stary Ostrog , it was renamed Zavoyko in 1897, after the Russian admiral Vasily Zavoyko who led the defense of Petropavlovsk in 1854....
  
  
• Zernovoy → Zernograd
  Zernograd
  Zernograd is a town and the administrative center of Zernogradsky District of Rostov Oblast, Russia, located southeast of Rostov-on-Don. Population:...
  
  
• Zeysky Sklad → Zeya-Pristan → Zeya
  Zeya (town)
  Zeya is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia, located on the Zeya River some 230 km southeast of Tynda and 532 km north of Blagoveshchensk...
  
  
• Zhdanovsk → Zapolyarny
  Zapolyarny, Murmansk Oblast
  Zapolyarny is a town in Pechengsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Kola Peninsula, south of the Kola Superdeep Borehole project. Population: The area where the town is located belonged to Finland in 1920–1944...
  
  
• Zheleznodorozhny → Yemva
  Yemva
  Yemva is a town and the administrative center of Knyazhpogostsky District of the Komi Republic, Russia, located on the Vym River northeast of Syktyvkar. Population:...
  
  
• Zhirnoye → Zhirnovsky → Zhirnovsk
  Zhirnovsk
  Zhirnovsk is a town and the administrative center of Zhirnovsky District of Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Medveditsa River, which itself flows into the Don River. Zhirnovsk lies north of Volgograd and south of its nearest town, Kalininsk, which is in neighboring...
  
  
• Zimmerbude → Svetly
  Svetly, Kaliningrad Oblast
  Svetly , prior to 1945 known by its German name Zimmerbude, is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the coast of Vistula Bay west of Kaliningrad. Population: 21,745 ;...
  
  
• Zlatoust-36 → Tryokhgorny
  Tryokhgorny
  Tryokhgorny three mountains) is a closed town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the western part of the oblast from Chelyabinsk. Population: It was founded in 1952, and was earlier known under the name Zlatoust-36 ....
  
  
• Zmeiny → Never-1 → Rukhlovo → Skovorodino
  Skovorodino
  Skovorodino is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: 10,100 ; 10,566 ; 13,824 .-Geography:The town is located in the upper stream of the Bolshoy Never River some 669 km northwest of Blagoveshchensk...
  
  

• Horreum Margi → Ravno → Ćuprija
• Veliki Bečkerek → Bečkerek → Petrovgrad → Zrenjanin
• Jagodina → Svetozarevo → Jagodina
• Kraljevo → Rankovićevo → Kraljevo
• Naissus → Niš
  Niš
  Niš is the largest city of southern Serbia and third-largest city in Serbia . According to the data from 2011, the city of Niš has a population of 177,972 inhabitants, while the city municipality has a population of 257,867. The city covers an area of about 597 km2, including the urban area,...
  
  
• Singidunum → Singidon → Beograd
• Taurunum → Zemun
  Zemun
  Zemun is a historical town and one of the 17 municipalities which constitute the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia...
  
  
• Sirmium → Sremska Mitrovica
  Sremska Mitrovica
  Sremska Mitrovica is a city and municipality located in the Vojvodina province of Serbia, on the left bank of the Sava river. As of 2002 the town had a total population of 39,041, while Sremska Mitrovica municipality had a population of 85,605...
  
  
• Užice
  Užice
  Užice is a city and municipality in western Serbia, located at the banks of the Đetinja river. It is the administrative center of the Zlatibor District...
  
   → Titovo Užice (1946) → Užice (1992)
• Vrbas
  Vrbas (town)
  Vrbas is a city and municipality located in Serbia at , in the South Bačka District in the province of Vojvodina. In 2002 the city had a total population of 25,887, while the municipality had 45,839.-Name:...
  
   → Titov Vrbas (1983) → Vrbas (1992)
• Zanes → Pontes → Novi Grad → Fetislam → Kladovo
• Zaslon → Šabac

• Kaschau → Kassa Košice
  Košice
  Košice is a city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary...
  
  
• Pressburg, Pozsony → Bratislava
  Bratislava
  Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...
  
  
• Besztercebánya → Banská Bystrica

• Assling → Jesenice
• Bischofslack → Škofja Loka
  Škofja Loka
  -Art colony:Before the civil war in the former Yugoslavia the Serbian town of Smederevska Palanka and the town of Škofja Loka held art colonies Groharijeva kolonija run by an art teacher from elementary school Olga Milošević in Smederevska Palanka. Now, after the split of SFR Yugoslavia, the two...
  
  
• Celeia → Cilli → Celje
  Celje
  Celje is a typical Central European town and the third largest town in Slovenia. It is a regional center of Lower Styria and the administrative seat of the Urban Municipality of Celje . The town of Celje is located under Upper Celje Castle at the confluence of the Savinja, Ložnica, and Voglajna...
  
  
• Egida → Capris → Justinopolis → Caput Histriae → Koper/Capodistria
• Emona → Laibach → Ljubljana
  Ljubljana
  Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
  
  
• Marburg → Maribor
  Maribor
  Maribor is the second largest city in Slovenia with 157,947 inhabitants . Maribor is also the largest and the capital city of Slovenian region Lower Styria and the seat of the Municipality of Maribor....
  
  
• Poetovio → Pettau → Ptuj
  Ptuj
  Ptuj is a city and one of 11 urban municipalities in Slovenia. Traditionally the area was part of the Lower Styria region. The municipality is now included in the Podravje statistical region...
  
  
• Pirano → Piran
  Piran
  Piran is a city and municipality in southwestern Slovenia on the Gulf of Piran on the Adriatic Sea. It is one of the three major towns of Slovenian Istria. The city resembles a large open-air museum, with medieval architecture and a rich cultural heritage. Narrow streets and compact houses give...
  
  
• Capodistria → Koper
• Portorose → Portorož
  Portorož
  - External links :**...
  
  
• Velenje
  Velenje
  Velenje is a town and municipality in northern Slovenia. The municipality has 33.331 inhabitants. Staro Velenje is first mentioned in written doucments dating to 1264 and 1374 as small market town and was a center of handicraft and trade...
  
   → Titovo Velenje (1981) → Velenje (1991)
• Castra ad fluvium frigidum → Ajdovščina
  Ajdovšcina
  Ajdovščina is a small town and a municipality with the same name and a population of 7000 , located in the Vipava Valley , Slovenia....
  
  
• Atrans
  Atrans
  Atrans is the Roman name for Trojane, a town in Central Slovenia. It was on the border between Italy and the province of Noricum.Ancient Romans built a road spanning Aquileia, Emona, Atrans and Celeia...
  
   → Trojane
  Trojane
  Trojane , is a settlement in the Municipality of Lukovica in central Slovenia. It lies on a hill near the border of two Slovene regions, Carniola and Styria. Until the freeway was finished in 2005, Trojane was on the main route from Ljubljana to Maribor.The Romans built a road on the route...
  
  

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Although many name changes have taken place officially since 1994, the previous names are still common in use, especially by the white communities (* means that all or some road signs still print the former name). This list doesn't include unofficially or proposed name changes such as Pretoria

Pretoria

Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...

 to Tshwane.

Pre 1994

• Albertsburg → Prince Albert
  Prince Albert, Western Cape
  Prince Albert, South Africa lies on the southern edge of the Great Karoo, nestling under the majestic Swartberg mountains.- History :...
  
   (1845)
• McHattiesburg → Balfour
  Balfour, Mpumalanga
  Balfour is a small coal mining and maize farming town in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The town was established in 1898 as McHattiesburg after its founder Frederick McHattie. In 1905 the town changed its name when the British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour gave a speech at the local station platform...
  
   (1905)
• Port Natal → Durban
  Durban
  Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in South Africa. It forms part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism...
  
  
• Treurfontein → Coligny (1923)

Post 1994

• Belfast → eMakhazeni (2009) *
• Bisho → Bhisho (2004)
• Butterworth → Gcuwa*
• Duiwelskloof → Modjadjiskloof (2004)
• Ellisras → Lephalale
  Lephalale
  Ellisras or Lephalale is a coal mining town in the Limpopo province of South Africa immediately north of the Waterberg Massif. The town was established as Ellisras in 1960 and named after the original farm owners, Patrick Ellis and Piet Erasmus. In 2002, Ellisras was renamed Lephalale by the...
  
   (2002)
• Louis Trichardt → Makhado → Louis Trichardt (name change reverted)*
• Machadodorp
  Machadodorp
  Machadodorp is a small town situated near the edge of the escarpment in the Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The Elands River runs through the town...
  
   → eNtokozweni (2009)*
• Malelane → Malalane (2007)*
• Messina → Musina
  Musina
  Musina or Messina is the northernmost town in the Limpopo province of South Africa near the Limpopo River border to Zimbabwe. It has a population of between 20,000 and 40,000. Iron ore, coal, magnetite, graphite, asbestos, diamonds, semi-precious stones and copper are mined in the...
  
   (2003)
• Naboomspruit → Mookgopong (2006)
• Nelspruit → Mbombela (2009, however Nelspruit was used during the 2010 FIFA World Cup
  2010 FIFA World Cup
  The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010...
  
  )*
• Phalaborwa
  Phalaborwa
  Phalaborwa is a town situated in the Mopani district, halfway up along the length of the Kruger National Park in the Limpopo province in South Africa. The Lowveld, also known as Valley of the Olifants, has the highest winter temperatures in South Africa. The rainfall is low and the average winter...
  
   → BaPhalaborwa*
• Pietersburg → Polokwane
  Polokwane
  Polokwane, meaning "Place of Safety",is a city in the Polokwane Local Municipality and the capital of the Limpopo province, South Africa. It is also often referred to by its former name, Pietersburg. Polokwane is a major urban centre, the biggest and most important north of Gauteng. The population...
  
   (2005)
• Potgietersrus → Mokopane
  Mokopane
  Mokopane , is a town in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The town was established by the Voortrekkers and named Potgietersrus after the slain Voortrekker leader Piet Potgieter...
  
   (2003)
• Stanger → KwaDukuza (2006)*
• Umtata → Mthatha
  Mthatha
  Mthatha is the main town of the King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality in Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The town has an airport, previously known by the name K. D. Matanzima Airport after former leader Kaiser Matanzima....
  
   (2004)
• Verwoerdburg → Centurion
  Centurion, Gauteng
  Centurion is an area with 279,430 inhabitants in Gauteng Province of South Africa, located between Pretoria and Midrand . Formerly an independent municipality, with its own town council, it is now part of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality...
  
   (1994)
• Warmbad/Warmbaths → Bela Bela
  Bela Bela
  ' is a town in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Deriving its name from the geothermic hot springs around which the town was built, it is widely known by the name Warmbaths, officially changed to the current name in 2002. Likewise, the Afrikaans name for the town was Warmbad before the name...
  
   (2002)*
• Waterval Boven
  Waterval Boven
  Waterval Boven is a small town situated on the edge of the Escarpment on the banks of the Elands River above the 75m Elands Falls on the railway line from Pretoria to Maputo in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Hence the name which means "above the waterfall" in Dutch...
  
   → Emgwenya (2009)*
• Witbank
  Witbank
  Witbank , also known as eMalahleni is a city situated on the Highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa, within the eMalahleni Local Municipality. The name Witbank is Afrikaans for White Ridge and is named after a white sandstone outcrop where wagon transport drivers rested...
  
   → Emalahleni (2006)

• Abula → Ávila
• Acci → Guadix
  Guadix
  Guadix, a city of southern Spain, in the province of Granada; on the left bank of the river Guadix, a sub-tributary of the Guadiana Menor, and on the Madrid-Valdepeñas-Almería railway...
  
  
• Aurariola → Orihuela
  Orihuela
  Orihuela is a city and municipality located at the feet of the Sierra de Orihuela mountains in the province of Alicante, Spain. The city of Orihuela had a population of 32,472 inhabitants in the beginning of 2006...
  
  
• Augusta Emerita → Mérida
  Mérida, Spain
  Mérida is the capital of the autonomous community of Extremadura, western central Spain. It has a population of 57,127 . The Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida is a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1993.- Climate :...
  
  
• Azaña → Numancia de la Sagra
  Numancia de la Sagra
  Numancia de la Sagra is a municipality located in the province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2006 census , the municipality has a population of 3713 inhabitants....
  
   (1936, by enemies of Manuel Azaña
  Manuel Azaña
  Manuel Azaña Díaz was a Spanish politician. He was the first Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic , and later served again as Prime Minister , and then as the second and last President of the Republic . The Spanish Civil War broke out while he was President...
  
  ).
• Barcino → Barcino Nova → Barcelona
  Barcelona
  Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
  
  
• Basti → Baza
  Baza, Granada
  Baza is a town in the province of Granada in southern Spain. It has 21,000 inhabitants . It is situated at 844 m above sea level, in the Hoya de Baza, a valley of the Sierra Nevada, not far from the Gallego River. This town gives its name to the Sierra de Baza...
  
  
• Bayona de Tajuña → Titulcia
  Titulcia
  ' is a municipality of the Community of Madrid, Spain.Of supposedly Roman origin, Titulcia is situated on the ancient military road from Emerita Augusta and Cesaraugusta ' is a municipality of the Community of Madrid, Spain.Of supposedly Roman origin, Titulcia is situated on the ancient military...
  
   (since the owner did not want to remind Ferdinand VII of Spain of his captivity at Bayonne
  Bayonne
  Bayonne is a city and commune in south-western France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture...
  
  ).
• Brigantium → Caronium → Corunna → La Coruña → A Coruña
  A Coruña
  A Coruña or La Coruña is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. It is the second-largest city in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country...
  
  
• Colonia Caecilia Metellinum → Medellín
• Colonia Iulia Romula → Hispalis → Isbilia → Seville
  Seville
  Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
  
   (Sevilla)
• Colonia Norba Caesarina → Norba → Cáceres
  Cáceres, Spain
  Cáceres is the capital of the same name province, in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain. , its population was 91,131 inhabitants. The municipio has a land area of 1,750.33 km², and is the largest in geographical extension in Spain....
  
  
• Colonia Patricia → Corduba → Qurtuba → Córdoba
  Córdoba, Spain
  -History:The first trace of human presence in the area are remains of a Neanderthal Man, dating to c. 32,000 BC. In the 8th century BC, during the ancient Tartessos period, a pre-urban settlement existed. The population gradually learned copper and silver metallurgy...
  
  
• Complutum → Alcalá de Henares
  Alcalá de Henares
  Alcalá de Henares , meaning Citadel on the river Henares, is a Spanish city, whose historical centre is one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, and one of the first bishoprics founded in Spain...
  
  
• Dertosa → Tortosa
  Tortosa
  -External links:* *** * * *...
  
  
• Dianinum → Daniyya → Denia → Dénia
  Dénia
  Dénia is a city in the province of Alicante, Spain, on the Costa Blanca halfway between Alicante and Valencia, the judicial seat of the comarca of Marina Alta...
  
  
• Egara → Tarrasa → Terrassa
  Terrassa
  Terrassa is a city in the east central region of Catalonia, Spain, in the comarca of Vallès Occidental, of which it is the co-capital along with Sabadell, the historic capital....
  
  
• El Ferrol → El Ferrol del Caudillo
  Francisco Franco
  Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...
  
   → Ferrol
• Fuenterrabía → Hondarribia
  Hondarribia
  Hondarribia is a town situated on the west shore of Bidasoa river's mouth, in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain. The border town is sited on a little promontory facing Hendaye over the Txingudi bay. The town holds an ancient old quarter with walls and a castle...
  
  
• Gadir → Gades → Cádiz
  Cádiz
  Cadiz is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the homonymous province, one of eight which make up the autonomous community of Andalusia....
  
  
• Gasteiz → Nueva Victoria → Vitoria-Gasteiz
  Vitoria-Gasteiz
  Vitoria-Gasteiz is the capital city of the province of Álava and of the autonomous community of the Basque Country in northern Spain with a population of 235,661 people. It is the second largest Basque city...
  
  
• Guernica → Guernica y Luno → Gernika-Lumo
• Guecho → Getxo
  Getxo
  Getxo is a town located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, in the north of Spain.It is part of the metropolitan area of Bilbao , and has about 83,000 inhabitants...
  
  
• Gerunda → Gerona → Girona
  Girona
  Girona is a city in the northeast of Catalonia, Spain at the confluence of the rivers Ter, Onyar, Galligants and Güell, with an official population of 96,236 in January 2009. It is the capital of the province of the same name and of the comarca of the Gironès...
  
  
• Ilerda → Lérida → Lleida
  Lleida
  Lleida is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital city of the province of Lleida, as well as the largest city in the province and it had 137,387 inhabitants , including the contiguous municipalities of Raimat and Sucs. The metro area has about 250,000 inhabitants...
  
  
• Illice → Elche/Elx
• Legio → León
• Lejona → Leioa
  Leioa
  Leioa is a municipality in Biscay, Basque Country, in northern Spain. Today it is part of the Bilbao conurbation, and it is the name of a metro station in the Bilbao metro...
  
  
• Lucentum → Laquant → Alicante/Alacant
• Lucus Augusti → Lugo
  Lugo
  Lugo is a city in northwestern Spain, in the autonomous community of Galicia. It is the capital of the province of Lugo. The municipality had a population of 97,635 in 2010, which makes is the fourth most populated city in Galicia.-Population:...
  
  
• Mainake → Malaca → Málaga
  Málaga
  Málaga is a city and a municipality in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 568,507 in 2010, it is the second most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth largest in Spain. This is the southernmost large city in Europe...
  
  
• Mahón → Maó
  Mao
  , is a Japanese remake of the Korean suspense drama series titled Ma Wang which aired on KBS 2TV in 2007. The drama stars Satoshi Ohno of Arashi and Toma Ikuta, both under the talent agency Johnny & Associates.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Onuba → Huelva
  Huelva
  Huelva is a city in southwestern Spain, the capital of the province of Huelva in the autonomous region of Andalusia. It is located along the Gulf of Cadiz coast, at the confluence of the Odiel and Tinto rivers. According to the 2010 census, the city has a population of 149,410 inhabitants. The...
  
  
• Pompaelo → Pamplona
  Pamplona
  Pamplona is the historial capital city of Navarre, in Spain, and of the former kingdom of Navarre.The city is famous worldwide for the San Fermín festival, from July 6 to 14, in which the running of the bulls is one of the main attractions...
  
  
• Qart Hadast → Carthago Nova → Cartagena
  Cartagena, Spain
  Cartagena is a Spanish city and a major naval station located in the Region of Murcia, by the Mediterranean coast, south-eastern Spain. As of January 2011, it has a population of 218,210 inhabitants being the Region’s second largest municipality and the country’s 6th non-Province capital...
  
  
• Quintanilla → Quintanilla de Onésimo
  Quintanilla de Onésimo
  Quintanilla de Onésimo is a municipality located in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 1,139 inhabitants....
  
  
• Saguntum → Murviedro/Morvedre → Sagunto/Sagunt
• Salduba → Caesaraugusta → Saraqusta → Zaragoza
  Zaragoza
  Zaragoza , also called Saragossa in English, is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain...
  
  
• Sos → Sos del Rey Católico
  Sos del Rey Católico
  Sos del Rey Católico is a historic town and municipality located in the comarca of Cinco Villas, province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain.-History:Sancho I of Pamplona founded Sos, in either 907 or 908, as a border town during the Reconquista....
  
  
• Helmantica → Salamantica → Salamanca
  Salamanca
  Salamanca is a city in western Spain, in the community of Castile and León. Because it is known for its beautiful buildings and urban environment, the Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988. It is the most important university city in Spain and is known for its contributions to...
  
  
• Tarraco → Tarraco nova → Tarragona
  Tarragona
  Tarragona is a city located in the south of Catalonia on the north-east of Spain, by the Mediterranean. It is the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and the capital of the Catalan comarca Tarragonès. In the medieval and modern times it was the capital of the Vegueria of Tarragona...
  
  
• Toletum → Tulaytula → Toledo
  Toledo, Spain
  Toledo's Alcázar became renowned in the 19th and 20th centuries as a military academy. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 its garrison was famously besieged by Republican forces.-Economy:...
  
  
• Valentia → Balansiyya → Valencia/València
• Villa Real → Ciudad Real
  Ciudad Real
  Ciudad Real is a city in Castile-La Mancha, Spain, with a population of c. 74,000. It is the capital of the province of Ciudad Real. It has a stop on the AVE high-speed rail line and has begun to grow as a long-distance commuter suburb of Madrid, located 115 miles to the north. A high capacity...
  
  
• Xera → Ceret → Xerez → Xerez de la Frontera → Jerez de la Frontera
  Jerez de la Frontera
  Jerez de la Frontera is a municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, in southwestern Spain, situated midway between the sea and the mountains. , the city, the largest in the province, had 208,896 inhabitants; it is the fifth largest in Andalusia...
  
  

• Bremersdorp → Manzini (1960)
• Buffelspruit → Mhlambanyatsi
  Mhlambanyatsi
  Mhlambanyatsi is a town in western Swaziland. It is located 18 kilometres southwest of the capital, Mbabane.-References:*Fitzpatrick, M., Blond, B., Pitcher, G., Richmond, S., and Warren, M. South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. Footscray, VIC: Lonely Planet....
  
  
• Goedgegun → Nhlangano
  Nhlangano
  Nhlangano is the fourth largest town in Swaziland. It is the largest town in the southern district of The town was formerly known as Goedgegun, but the name was changed to Nhlangano, meaning "the meeting place". King George of England met with King Sobuza in the town in 1947....
  
  
• Havelock Mine → Bulembu
  Bulembu
  Bulembu is a small town located in northwestern Hhohho, Swaziland, 10 km west of the town of Piggs Peak. Located above the Komati Valley in Swaziland’s Highveld, Bulembu is named after the siSwati word for a spider's web....
  
  

• Augusta Raurica → Kaiseraugst
  Kaiseraugst
  Kaiseraugst is a municipality in the district of Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is named for the Ancient Roman city of Augusta Raurica whose ruins are situated nearby...
  
  
• Aventicum → Wiflispurg → Avenches
  Avenches
  Avenches is a Swiss municipality in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Broye-Vully.-History:The roots of Avenches go back to the Celts...
  
  
• Eburodunum → Yverdon-les-Bains
  Yverdon-les-Bains
  Yverdon-les-Bains is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord vaudois of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is the seat of the district...
  
  
• Lousonna → Lausanne
  Lausanne
  Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...
  
  
• Minnodunum → Moudon
  Moudon
  Moudon is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It was the seat of the district of Moudon and is now in the Broye-Vully district.-History:...
  
  
• Octodurus → Martigny
• Turicum → Zürich
  Zürich
  Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
  
  
• Brenno***(durum?) → Bern

• Aleppo حلب الشهباء → Beroea → Aleppo
  Aleppo
  Aleppo is the largest city in Syria and the capital of Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 2,301,570 , expanding to over 2.5 million in the metropolitan area, it is also one of the largest cities in the Levant...
  
   (It was known halep during Turkish rule. Present name is Halab)
• Emesa → Humus → Homs
  Homs
  Homs , previously known as Emesa , is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate. It is above sea level and is located north of Damascus...
  
  
• Hamath → Hama
  Hama
  Hama is a city on the banks of the Orontes River in west-central Syria north of Damascus. It is the provincial capital of the Hama Governorate. Hama is the fourth-largest city in Syria—behind Aleppo, Damascus, and Homs—with a population of 696,863...
  
  
• Laodicea → Lazkiye → Latakia
  Latakia
  Latakia, or Latakiyah , is the principal port city of Syria, as well as the capital of the Latakia Governorate. In addition to serving as a port, the city is a manufacturing center for surrounding agricultural towns and villages...
  
  
• Palmyra → Tadmor

 Republic of China (Republic of China)

• Quemoy → Kinmen† → Jinmen
• Tamsui† → Danshuei
• Sindian† → Xindian
  Xindian
  Xindian District is a district in the southern part of New Taipei City in northern Republic of China .- History :Xindian's name originated during the Qing Dynasty close to 300 years ago. According to legend, a person named Lin and others came from Quanzhou, Fujian Province...
  
  

†Name change in English due to replacement of outdated romanization methods with the Pinyin

Pinyin

Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...

 Romanization Method. Chinese name unchanged.

See List of renamed cities in Tajikistan

• Dushanbe → Stalinabad (1929) → Dushanbe
  Dushanbe
  -Economy:Coal, lead, and arsenic are mined nearby in the cities of Nurek and Kulob allowing for the industrialization of Dushanbe. The Nurek Dam, the world's highest as of 2008, generates 95% of Tajikistan's electricity, and another dam, the Roghun Dam, is planned on the Vakhsh River...
  
   (1961)
• Khodjend → Leninabad (1939) → Khujand
  Khujand
  Khujand , also transliterated as Khudzhand, , formerly Khodjend or Khodzhent until 1936 and Leninabad until 1991, is the second-largest city of Tajikistan. It is situated on the Syr Darya River at the mouth of the Fergana Valley...
  
   (1991)
• Kurgan-Tyube → Qurghonteppa
  Qurghonteppa
  Qurghonteppa or Kurganteppa is a city in southwestern Tajikistan. It is the capital of the Khatlon region and it is located 100 km from Dushanbe. It is estimated that the population of the city is close to 85,000 people, making it the third-largest city in the country. The population...
  
  
• Sovietabad → Ghafurov
  Ghafurov
  Ghafurov is a town in Ghafurov district, Sughd Province, Tajikistan. It has a population of 15,700 , down from 18,900 in the 1989 census. The town was created in 1965, and until 1978 had the name Sovetabad...
  
   (1978)
• Ura-Tyube → Istaravshan (2001)
• Yangi-Bazar → Orjonikidzeabad (1936) → Qofarnihon (1992) → Vahdat
  Vahdat
  Vahdat is a city in western Tajikistan, just 10 km east of Dushanbe. In the last century the city has been renamed several times. Former Kafirnahan...
  
   (2003)

Many cities were founded by the Ancient Anatolians, Ionians and Greeks or their contemporaries, and renamed as Latinized by the Romans, and later again by Muslim Turks ( in most cases Turkified speech)

European (Eastern Thrace)

• Hadrianopolis
  Hadrianopolis
  Hadrianopolis was the name of numerous cities in the ancient world, named after the Roman Emperor Hadrian, including:* Hadrianopolis in Bithynia* Hadrianopolis in Chaonia, later Justinianopolis...
  
  /Adrianople → Edirne
  Edirne
  Edirne is a city in Eastern Thrace, the northwestern part of Turkey, close to the borders with Greece and Bulgaria. Edirne served as the capital city of the Ottoman Empire from 1365 to 1453, before Constantinople became the empire's new capital. At present, Edirne is the capital of the Edirne...
  
  
• Byzantion → Byzantium
  Byzantium
  Byzantium was an ancient Greek city, founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 667 BC and named after their king Byzas . The name Byzantium is a Latinization of the original name Byzantion...
  
   → Constantinopolis/Constantinople
  Constantinople
  Constantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...
  
   → Istanbul
  Istanbul
  Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
  
  

Anatolia (Asia Minor)

• Alexandretta → İskenderun
  Iskenderun
  İskenderun is a city and urban district in the province of Hatay on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. The current mayor is Yusuf Hamit Civelek .-Names:...
  
  
• Amida
  Amida (Roman city)
  Amida was an ancient city located where modern Diyarbakır, Turkey. The Roman writers Ammianus Marcellinus and Procopius consider it a city of Mesopotamia, but it may be more properly viewed as belonging to Armenia Major....
  
   → Diyar-ı Bekr → Diyarbekir → Diyarbakır
  Diyarbakır
  Diyarbakır is one of the largest cities in southeastern Turkey...
  
  
• Amisus → Samsun
  Samsun
  Samsun is a city of about half a million people on the north coast of Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Samsun Province and a major Black Sea port.-Name:...
  
  
• Ancyra → Angora → Ankara
  Ankara
  Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....
  
  
• Antiocheia -> Antiochia/Antioch → Antakya
  Antakya
  Antakya is the seat of the Hatay Province in southern Turkey, near the border with Syria. The mayor is Lütfü Savaş.Known as Antioch in ancient times, the city has historical significance for Christianity, as it was the place where the followers of Jesus Christ were called Christians for the first...
  
  
• Archelais
  Archelais
  Archelaïs is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Palestine, with its see twelve miles west of the Jordan River. Its episcopal list is given in Gams ....
  
   -> Aksaray
  Aksaray
  Aksaray is a city in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital district of Aksaray Province. According to 2009 census, population of the province is 376 907 of which 171,423 live in the city of Aksaray. The district covers an area of , and the average elevation is , with the highest...
  
  
• Attalia → Attalea → Adalia → Antalya
  Antalya
  Antalya is a city on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Turkey. With a population 1,001,318 as of 2010. It is the eighth most populous city in Turkey and country's biggest international sea resort.- History :...
  
  
• Bythinion/Bythinium → Claudiopolis → Bolu
  Bolu
  - Places of interest :The countryside around Bolu offers excellent walking and other outdoor pursuits. There are hotels in the town for visitors. Sights near the town include:* The 14th century mosque, Ulu Camii...
  
  
• Chalkedon → Chalcedon
  Chalcedon
  Chalcedon , sometimes transliterated as Chalkedon) was an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor, almost directly opposite Byzantium, south of Scutari . It is now a district of the city of Istanbul named Kadıköy...
  
   → Kadıköy
• Cius
  Cius
  Cius or Kios , later renamed Prusias ad Mare after king Prusias I of Bithynia, was an ancient Greek city bordering the Propontis , in Bithynia , and had a long history, being mentioned by Aristotle, and Strabo. It was colonized by the Milesians and became a place of much commercial importance...
  
   → Prusa → Bursa
  Bursa, Turkey
  Bursa is a city in northwestern Turkey and the seat of Bursa Province. The metropolitan area in the entire Bursa province had a population of 2.6 million as of 2010, making the city fourth most populous in Turkey. The city is equally one of the most industrialized metropolitan centers in the...
  
  
• Dorylaeum
  Dorylaeum
  Dorylaeum or Dorylaion was an ancient city in Anatolia. It is now in ruins near the city of Eskişehir, Turkey.The city existed under the Phrygians but may have been much older. It was a Roman trading post. It also was probably a key city of the route the Apostle Paul took on his Second Missonary...
  
   -> Eskişehir
• Edessa
  Edessa, Mesopotamia
  Edessa is the Greek name of an Aramaic town in northern Mesopotamia, as refounded by Seleucus I Nicator. For the modern history of the city, see Şanlıurfa.-Names:...
  
   → Sanli Urfa (Şanlıurfa)
• Ephesos → Ephesus -> Efes
• Halikarnassos → Halicarnassus → Bodrum
  Bodrum
  Bodrum is a port city in Muğla Province, in the southwestern Aegean Region of Turkey. It is located on the southern coast of Bodrum Peninsula, at a point that checks the entry into the Gulf of Gökova. The site was called Halicarnassus of Caria in ancient times and was famous for housing the...
  
  
• Iconium → Konya
  Konya
  Konya is a city in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The metropolitan area in the entire Konya Province had a population of 1,036,027 as of 2010, making the city seventh most populous in Turkey.-Etymology:...
  
  
• Kyzikos → Cyzicus
• Magnesia
  Magnesia ad Sipylum
  Magnesia ad Sipylum , was a city of Lydia, situated about 65 km northeast of Smyrna on the river Hermus at the foot of Mount Sipylus...
  
   → Manisa
  Manisa
  Manisa is a large city in Turkey's Aegean Region and the administrative seat of Manisa Province.Modern Manisa is a booming center of industry and services, advantaged by its closeness to the international port city and the regional metropolitan center of İzmir and by its fertile hinterland rich in...
  
  
• Mazaca → Caesarea Mazaca → Kayseri
  Kayseri
  Kayseri is a large and industrialized city in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is the seat of Kayseri Province. The city of Kayseri, as defined by the boundaries of Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality, is structurally composed of five metropolitan districts, the two core districts of Kocasinan and...
  
  
• Melitene → Malatya
  Malatya
  Malatya ) is a city in southeastern Turkey and the capital of its eponymous province.-Overview:The city site has been occupied for thousands of years. The Assyrians called the city Meliddu. Following Roman expansion into the east, the city was renamed in Latin as Melitene...
  
  
• Mylasa -> Milas
• Nikaia → Nicaea → İznik
  Iznik
  İznik is a city in Turkey which is primarily known as the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea, the first and seventh Ecumenical councils in the early history of the Church, the Nicene Creed, and as the capital city of the Empire of Nicaea...
  
  
• Nicomedia
  Nicomedia
  Nicomedia was an ancient city in what is now Turkey, founded in 712/11 BC as a Megarian colony and was originally known as Astacus . After being destroyed by Lysimachus, it was rebuilt by Nicomedes I of Bithynia in 264 BC under the name of Nicomedia, and has ever since been one of the most...
  
   → İznikmid → İzmit
  Izmit
  İzmit is a city in Turkey, administrative center of Kocaeli Province as well as the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality. It is located at the Gulf of İzmit in the Sea of Marmara, about east of Istanbul, on the northwestern part of Anatolia. The city center has a population of 294.875...
  
  
• Pergamon
  Pergamon
  Pergamon , or Pergamum, was an ancient Greek city in modern-day Turkey, in Mysia, today located from the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus , that became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon during the Hellenistic period, under the Attalid dynasty, 281–133 BC...
  
   → Pergamum → Bergama
  Bergama
  Bergama is a populous district, as well as the center city of the same district, in İzmir Province in western Turkey. By excluding İzmir's metropolitan area, it is one of the prominent districts of the province in terms of population and is largely urbanized at the rate of 53,6 per cent...
  
  
• Sinope → Sinop
• Smyrna
  Smyrna
  Smyrna was an ancient city located at a central and strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. Thanks to its advantageous port conditions, its ease of defence and its good inland connections, Smyrna rose to prominence. The ancient city is located at two sites within modern İzmir, Turkey...
  
   → İzmir
  Izmir
  Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...
  
  
• Theodosiopolis → Kalikala→ Erzurum
• Tralles → Güzelhisar → Aydın
• Trapezon → Trapezus → Trebizond → Trabzon
  Trabzon
  Trabzon is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. Trabzon, located on the historical Silk Road, became a melting pot of religions, languages and culture for centuries and a trade gateway to Iran in the southeast and the Caucasus to the northeast...
  
  

See List of renamed cities in Turkmenistan

• Bekdaş → Garabogaz
• Charjuy → Leninsk (1924) → Charjuy = Charjou = Çarjew (1927) → Turkmenabat
  Türkmenabat
  Türkmenabat , formerly and since the medieval times, Chardzhou , also spelled Çärjew, Chardjui, Charjou, Chardzhev, Charjev, Chärjew, or Charjew , ancient Amul, is a town in Turkmenistan, capital of Lebap Province...
  
   (1999)
• Çeleken → Hazar
  Hazar, Turkmenistan
  Hazar is a city in Turkmenistan on the Caspian Sea, part of the Balkan Province, formerly Çeleken, also written Cheleken.-Petroleum:This city and area is within a rich petroleum oil reserves. As far back as 1st century, the Greek philosopher Strabo said, "They say, diggers opened oily springs near...
  
  
• Gazanjyk → Bereket
  Bereket
  Bereket is a city in south-western Turkmenistan in Balkan Province. It lies approximately equal distance from Gumdag and Gyzylarbat to the south-east....
  
  
• Gyzyl-arbat → Serdar (city)
• Krasnovodsk → Turkmenbashi
  Türkmenbasy, Turkmenistan
  Türkmenbaşy , formerly known as Krasnovodsk and, more properly, Kyzyl-Su, is a city in Balkan Province in Turkmenistan, on the Krasnovodsk Gulf of the Caspian Sea. It is located at latitude 40.0231 North; longitude 52.9697 East, at an altitude of 27 meters. The population was 86,800, mostly...
  
   (1993)
• Kushka = Guşgy → Serhetabat
  Serhetabat
  Serhetabat is a small town in the Mary Province in Turkmenistan, located in the valley of the Kushka River. Population: 5,200 ....
  
  
• Nebit-dag → Balkanabat
  Balkanabat
  Balkanabat , formerly Nebit Dag, is a city in western Turkmenistan, and the capital of Balkan Province. It is located at , at an altitude of 17 meters, some 400 kilometers from Ashgabat. As of 2006, the city had an estimated population of 87,822. Balkanabat lies at the foot of the Balkan...
  
  
• Poltoratsk → Ashgabat

See List of renamed cities in Ukraine

Crimea

• Aluston → Lusta → Aluşta → Alushta
  Alushta
  Alushta is a resort town in Crimea, Ukraine, founded in the 6th century by Emperor Justinian. It is situated on the Black Sea on the road from Gurzuf to Sudak, as well as on the Crimean Trolleybus line....
  
   (1784)
• Ermeni Bazar → Armyanskiy Bazar (1736) → Armyansk
  Armyansk
  Armyansk is a city in northern Crimea, Ukraine. It is located on the Isthmus of Perekop.Armyansk was founded in the beginning of the 18th century by Armenians and Greeks, who had come from the nearby city of Or Qapı . The first name of the town was Ermeni Bazar .-External links:*...
  
   (1921)
• Karasubazar → Bilohirsk
  Bilohirsk
  Bilohirsk , formerly Karasubazar is a town in Crimea, Ukraine, situated 25 miles east-northeast of Simferopol on the Biyuk Karasu river. Both Russian and Ukrainian names mean "white mountains", and original Crimean Tatar name Qarasuvbazar means "bazaar on the Karasu river".The site is low, but...
  
   (1944)
• Aqmeçit → Chornomorske (1944)
• Canköy → Dzhankoy
  Dzhankoy
  Dzhankoy is a city in the north of Crimea, Ukraine, and the capital of Dzhankoy raion. It is located about from the Crimean capital, Simferopol. Two railroad lines, Kharkiv-Sevastopol and Armyansk-Kerch, cross Dzhankoy. In 1926, Dzhankoy was granted city status.Dzhankoy is a great transportation...
  
   (1784)
• Kerkinitis → Kezlev (7th century) → Gözleve → Yevpatoria (1784)
• Theodosia → Ardabda → Kafas → Caffa → Kefe (1475) → Feodosiya (1784)
• Sarabuz → Hvardiyske (1944)
• Inkerman → Belokamensk (1976) → Inkerman
  Inkerman
  Inkerman is a town in Crimea, Ukraine. It is situated 5 kilometres east of Sevastopol, at the mouth of the Chernaya River that flows into Sevastopol Inlet . Administratively, Inkerman is subordinate to the municipality of Sevastopol which does not constitute part of the Autonomous Republic of...
  
   (1991)
• Panticapaeum → Bosporus → Korchev → Vosporo/Cerchio → Kerch
  Kerch
  Kerch is a city on the Kerch Peninsula of eastern Crimea, an important industrial, transport and tourist centre of Ukraine. Kerch, founded 2600 years ago, is considered as one of the most ancient cities in Ukraine.-Ancient times:...
  
  
• İslâm Terek → Kirovske (1944)
• Kurman-Kumelĉi → Krasnohvardiyske (1944)
• Qızıltaş → Krasnokamianka
  Krasnokamianka
  Krasnokamenka is a resort in Crimea, Ukraine, a former Crimean Tatar village, now a part of Greater Yalta, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, near the headquarters of the Eurasian Scout Region, the divisional office of the World Scout Bureau of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in...
  
   (1945)
• Aşağı Otuz → Prymorye (1945) → Kurortne (1978)
• Albat → Kuybysheve (1945)
• Yedi Quyu → Sem Kolodezey (1784) → Lenine
  Lenine, Crimea
  Lenine or Lenino is a town in the eastern Crimea, in the southwestern part of the Kerch Peninsula. It is the seat of the Lenine Raion. Its Crimean Tatar name Yedi Quyu means "Seven Wells". Until 1957 it was known as Sem' Kolodezey ) which also means "Seven Wells" in Russian/Ukrainian, but then...
  
   (1957)
• Seyitler → Nyzhniohirsk (1944)
• Büyük Onlar → Oktiabrske (1945)
• Kaygador → Provalnoe → Dvoyakornoe → Bubnovka → Ordjonikidze (1937)
• Yañı Küçükköy → Parkove
• Or Qapı → Perekop
  Perekop
  Perekop is a village located at the Perekop Isthmus connecting Crimean peninsula to the Ukrainian mainland. It is known for the Fortress Or Qapi that served as the gateway to Crimea...
  
   (1736)
• Curçı → Pervomaiske (1944)
• Aşağı Kikineiz → Ponyzivka
• Bazarçıq → Poshtove (1945)
• Hafuz → Yuzhnaya Tochka (1938) → Primosrky (1952)
• Aqşeyh → Rozdolne (1944)
• Saq → Saky
  Saky
  Saky is a city in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine. Population is 29,416 . The city has one of the major bases of the Ukrainian Navy. Other bases are at Odessa, Novoozerne, and Sebastopol....
  
   (1784)
• Aqyar → Sevastopol
  Sevastopol
  Sevastopol is a city on rights of administrative division of Ukraine, located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimea peninsula. It has a population of 342,451 . Sevastopol is the second largest port in Ukraine, after the Port of Odessa....
  
   (1826; also: Sebastopol)
• Otuz → Shchebetovka (1944)
• Aqmescit → Simferopol
  Simferopol
  -Russian Empire and Civil War:The city was renamed Simferopol in 1784 after the annexation of the Crimean Khanate to the Russian Empire by Catherine II of Russia. The name Simferopol is derived from the Greek, Συμφερόπολις , translated as "the city of usefulness." In 1802, Simferopol became the...
  
   (1784)
• Dolossı → Sovietske
• İçki → Sovietsky (1944)
• Eski Qırım → Staryi Krym
  Staryi Krym
  Staryi Krym is a small historical town in the Eastern Crimea, approximately 25 km west of Theodosia. The population of Staryi Krym in 2001 was 9,960 people.-History:...
  
   (1783)
• Sudaq → Sudak
  Sudak municipality
  Sudak city municipality , officially "the territory governed by the Sudak city council" is one of the 25 regions of Crimea. It is a resort region, located at the south-eastern shore of Crimea.-Subdivisions:...
  
   (1784)

Zaporizhia

• Alexandrovsk → Zaporizhia
  Zaporizhia
  Zaporizhia or Zaporozhye [formerly Alexandrovsk ] is a city in southeastern Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the administrative center of the Zaporizhia Oblast...
  
   (1921)

Luhansk

• Yuryevka → Alchevsk (1903) → Voroshylovsk (1931) → Voroshylovsk/Alchevsk (1957) → Komunarsk (1961) → Alchevsk
  Alchevsk
  Alchevsk is a town in the Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. It is separate administrative unit, and is located approximately 45 km from the oblast capital, Luhansk, and right next to the district capital of Perevalsk....
  
   (1991)
• Izium → Almaznaya (1878) → Almazna
  Almazna
  Almazna is a small city in Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine. Population is 5,061 ....
  
   (1977)
• Bokovo-Antratsyt → Antratsyt
  Antratsyt
  Antratsyt is a city in the Luhansk Oblast of south-eastern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Antratsytivsky Raion , and is located at around .The current estimated population is around 63,700 ....
  
   (1962)
• Yekaterinovka → Artem (1923) → Artemivsk
  Artemivsk, Luhansk Oblast
  Artemivsk is a city in the Perevalskyi Raion of the eastern Ukrainian oblast of Luhansk.-History:The city was founded as Katerynivka village in 1910 close to the railway station of Kypyche . Its name was changed to Artema in 1923 and to Artemivsk in 1938.-Economy:Its major industry is coal mining...
  
   (1938)
• Gorskoye → Hirske (1938)
• Golubyevskiy Rudnik → Kirovsk
  Kirovsk, Ukraine
  Kirovsk is a city in Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine. Population is 35,199 .Kirovsk was founded in 1764. Its history follows closely the history of industrial development in the Eastern Ukraine. The town grew when coal mines were set up in the area; reaching its peak size in the 1980s...
  
   (1962)
• Sorokino → Krasnodon
  Krasnodon
  Krasnodon is a city in the Luhansk Oblast of south-eastern Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Krasnodonskyi Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast....
  
   (1938)
• Kryndachiovka → Krasnyi Luch
  Krasnyi Luch
  Krasnyi Luch is a city in the Luhansk Oblast of south-eastern Ukraine. The city is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast.The current estimated population is 89,688 ..-History:...
  
   (1920)
• Lugansk → Voroshylovhrad (1935) → Luhansk (1958) → Voroshylovhrad (1970) → Luhansk
  Luhansk
  Luhansk also known as Lugansk is a city in southeastern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Luhansk Oblast . The city itself is also designated as its own separate municipality within the oblast...
  
   (1990)
• Aleksandrovka → Petro-Maryevka (1865) → Pervomaisk
  Pervomaisk, Luhansk Oblast
  Pervomaisk is a city in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. Population is 43,082 . Northeast of Pervomaisk, there is the static inverter plant of HVDC Volgograd-Donbass....
  
   (1920)
• Kadiyevka → Sergo (1937) → Kadiivka (1940) → Stakhanov
  Stakhanov, Ukraine
  Stakhanov is a city in the Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. The city is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast.The current estimated population is around 90,152 .-History:...
  
   (1978)

Odessa

• Ophiusa → Asperon → Moncastro → Akkerman (1503) → Cetatea Albă (1918) → Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky (1944)
• Buh Khutirs → Illichivsk
  Illichivsk
  Illichivsk is a port city in the Odessa Oblast of south-western Ukraine. The city is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast, and is located at around .-Geography:...
  
   (1952)
• Birzula → Kotovsk
  Kotovsk, Ukraine
  thumb|Kotovsky Memorial in KotovskKotovsk is a city in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine, the administrative center of Kotovskyi Raion. Population is 40,718 ....
  
   (1935)
• Hacibey → Odessa
  Odessa
  Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
  
   (1794)

Mykolaiv

• Fedorivka → Fiodorovka (1776) → Novaya Odessa (1832) → Nova Odesa
  Nova Odesa
  Nova Odesa is a city in the Odesskaya Oblast of southern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Novoodes'kyi rayon .The current estimated population is around 1 003 705 ....
  
   (1989)
• Kara Kerman → Özi → Ochakov (1792) → Ochakiv (1989)
• Orlyk → Orlovsky sconce
  Sconce (fortification)
  A Sconce is a small protective fortification, such as an earthwork often placed on a mound as a defensive work for artillery. It was used primarily in Northern Europe from the late Middle Ages until the 19th century. This type of fortification was common during the English Civil War, and the...
  
   (1743) → Yekaterinsky sconce
  Sconce (fortification)
  A Sconce is a small protective fortification, such as an earthwork often placed on a mound as a defensive work for artillery. It was used primarily in Northern Europe from the late Middle Ages until the 19th century. This type of fortification was common during the English Civil War, and the...
  
   (1770) → Olviopol (1781) → Pervomaisk
  Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast
  Pervomaisk is a city in Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine and the center of the Pervomaiskyi Raion. It is located on the Southern Bug river which bisects the city...
  
   (1919)
• Kostiantynivka-2 → Yuzhnoukrainsk
  Yuzhnoukrainsk
  Yuzhnoukrainsk is a city in Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine. Population is 38,206 .Yuzhnoukrainsk NPP is located near the city of Yuzhnoukrainsk, approximately 350 kilometers south of the capital Kiev. This nuclear power station has three VVER-1000 reactors and a net achievement of 2,850 megawatts...
  
   (1987)

Donetsk

• Bakhmut → Artemivsk
  Artemivsk
  Artemivsk or Artemovsk is a city in the Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Artemivsky Raion. It is located on the Bahmutka River about 89 km away from the administrative center of the Donetsk Oblast, Donetsk. As of 2005, its population is 80,655.-History:There is...
  
   (1924)
• Nelepovy → Artemove
  Artemove
  Artemove is a city in Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. Population is 6,725 ....
  
   (1921)
• Yuzovka → Trotsk (1924) → Stalino (1924) → Donetsk
  Donetsk
  Donetsk , is a large city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the economic and cultural Donets Basin region...
  
   (1961)
• Nova Khrestovka → Kirovske (1958)
• Karakybbud → Komsomolske
  Komsomolske
  Komsomolske is a city in Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. Population is 12,813 .Komsomolskoye is a small city in Ukraine about 1.5 hours outside Donetsk by local bus. Most of the people live in small flats with their families as was common in Soviet times...
  
   (1949)
• Grishyno → Postysheve → Krasnoarmiisk (1938)
• Dmitriyevsk → Makiivka
  Makiivka
  Makiivka, also spelled Makiyivka is an industrial city located in eastern Ukraine within the Donetsk Oblast , from the capital Donetsk. As of the 2001 Ukrainian Census, the city's population is 389,589 inhabitants, of these 178,475 are men and 211,114 are women. It is an important steel...
  
   (1931)
• Mariupol → Zhdanov (1948) → Mariupol
  Mariupol
  Mariupol , formerly known as Zhdanov , is a port city in southeastern Ukraine. It is located on the coast of the Azov Sea, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. Mariupol is the largest city in Priazovye - a geographical region around Azov Sea, divided by Russia and Ukraine - and is also a popular sea...
  
   (1989)
• Karlo-Libknekhtovsk → Soledar
  Soledar
  Soledar is a city in Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. Population is 13,151 . The name of the town stands for 'gift of salt' both in Russian and Ukrainian. In Soviet times, until 1991, the city was known as Karlo-Libknekhtivsk...
  
   (1991)
• Bannoe → Banne (1929) → Bannovske (1938) → Slovianohirsk (1964) → Sviatohirsk
  Sviatohirsk
  Sviatohirsk or Svyatogorsk is a small city in Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. The population is 5,136 . Before 2003, the city was known as Slovianohirsk or Slavyanogorsk , and before 1964 it was known as Bannovsky or Bannovskoe , so called for the medicinal baths constructed near the Svyatogorsky...
  
   (2003)
• Tor → Sloviansk
  Sloviansk
  Sloviansk is a city in eastern Ukraine, an administrative center of the Slovianskyi Raion within the Donetsk Oblast. It was founded in 1676, and has a population of 129,600.-History:...
  
   (1784)

Dnipropetrovsk

• Kamyanske → Dniprodzerzhynsk
  Dniprodzerzhynsk
  Dniprodzerzhynsk is an industrial city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine, and a port on the Dnieper River.-History:The first written evidence of settlement in the territory of Dniprodzerzhynsk appeared in 1750. At that time the villages of Romankovo and Kamianske, which make the modern city,...
  
   (1936)
• Yekaterinoslav → Novorossiysk (1797) → Yekaterinoslav (1802) → Dnipropetrovsk
  Dnipropetrovsk
  Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk formerly Yekaterinoslav is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country...
  
   (Dnepropetrovsk; 1926)
• Mykytyne → Slovyanske (1775) → Nikopol (1781)
• Samara → Novomoskovsk
  Novomoskovsk, Ukraine
  Novomoskovsk is a city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine and a center of Novomoskovsk Raion . As of 2001, the city's population is 72,439....
  
   (1782)
• Shakhtarske → Pershotravensk
  Pershotravensk
  Pershotravensk is a city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine. Population is 29,140 ....
  
   (1960)

Kharkiv

• Konstantingrad → Krasnohrad (1922)
• Lykhachove → Pervomaiskyi
  Pervomaiskyi
  -Media:Pervomaiskiy has 2 newspapers working within the Region and City and 2 Private TV Channels.Here is a list of media working in Pervomaiskyi.* Pervomaiskiy-info Working Since 2006...
  
   (1952)
• Zmiiv → Zmeyev (1656) → Hotvald (1976) → Zmiiv
  Zmiiv
  Zmiiv is a city in Kharkiv Oblast of Ukraine. The population as of 2001 was 17,063. Zmiiv is the administrative center of Zmiivskyi Raion...
  
   (1990)

Lviv

• Lviv → Lwów (1356) → Lemberg (1772) → Lwów (1918) → Lviv
  Lviv
  Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...
  
   (1939)
• Żółkiew (until 1939) → Zhovkva → Nesterov (1951) → Zhovkva
  Zhovkva
  Zhovkva is a city in the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine, north of Lviv. It is the administrative center of the Zhovkivskyi Raion . The current estimated population is 13,500.-History:...
  
   (1992)

Volyn

• Lutsk → Luchesk (1427) → Łuck (1569) → Lutsk (1795) → Mikhailogorod (1850) → Luck (1915) → Łuck (1919) → Lutsk
  Lutsk
  Lutsk is a city located by the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Volyn Oblast and the administrative center of the surrounding Lutskyi Raion within the oblast...
  
   (1939)

Khmelnytsky

• Proskurov → Khmelnytskyi
  Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
  Khmelnytskyi is a city in Ukraine in the region of Podillia. It is located on the Southern Buh River and about from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The town's original name was Płoskirów, later Proskurov, but in 1954 was renamed Khmelnytskyi. It is the center of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western...
  
   (1954)

Ivano-Frankivsk

• Stanisławów → Stanislaviv (1939) → Ivano-Frankivsk
  Ivano-Frankivsk
  Ivano-Frankivsk is a historic city located in the western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast , and is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast, municipality....
  
   (1962)

Ternopil

• Tarnopol → Ternopil
  Ternopil
  Ternopil , is a city in western Ukraine, located on the banks of the Seret River. Ternopil is one of the major cities of Western Ukraine and the historical region of Galicia...
  
   (1939)

Uzhhorod

• Ungvar (1248) → Užhorod (1919) → Ungvar (1938) → Uzhhorod
  Uzhhorod
  Uzhhorod or Uzhgorod is a city located in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary. It is the administrative center of the Zakarpattia Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Uzhhorodskyi Raion within the oblast...
  
   (1944)

Kirovohrad

• Yelizavetgrad (1784) → Zinovyevsk (1924) → Kirovo (1934) → Kirovohrad
  Kirovohrad
  Kirovohrad , formerly Yelisavetgrad, is a city in central Ukraine. It is located on the Inhul River. It is a motorway junction. Pop. 239,400 ....
  
   (1939)

Kherson

• Chapli → Askania (1828) → Askania Nova
  Askania-Nova (settlement)
  Askania-Nova is an urban type settlement in the Chaplynskyi Raion, Kherson Oblast of southern Ukraine, near the Askania-Nova biosphere reserve. It has a population of 3,475.-History:...
  
   (1835)
• Oleshky → Alioshki (1802) → Tsiurupynsk (1928)
• Ali-Agok → Skadovskoye (1894) → Skadovsk
  Skadovsk
  Skadovsk is a port city on the Black Sea in the Kherson Oblast of southern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Skadovsky Raion ....
  
   (1933)
• Holy → Golaya Pristan (1786) → Hola Prystan
  Hola Prystan
  Hola Prystan is a city in Kherson Oblast of Ukraine. The Konka River flows through the city.-History:Golaya Pristan was founded in 1709....
  
   (1923)
• Geniczi → Genichesk (1784) → Henichesk (1923)

England

• Aquae Sulis → Bath
• Bristelmestune → Brighthelmstone → Brighton
  Brighton
  Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
  
  
• Brycgstow → Bristol
  Bristol
  Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
  
  
• Camulodunum → Colchester
  Colchester
  Colchester is an historic town and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester in Essex, England.At the time of the census in 2001, it had a population of 104,390. However, the population is rapidly increasing, and has been named as one of Britain's fastest growing towns. As the...
  
  
• Cantiacorum → Durovurnum → Canterbury
  Canterbury
  Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a district of Kent in South East England. It lies on the River Stour....
  
  
• Deva → Caester → Chester
  Chester
  Chester is a city in Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, it is home to 77,040 inhabitants, and is the largest and most populous settlement of the wider unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester, which had a population of 328,100 according to the...
  
  
• Dubris → Dover
  Dover
  Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England. It faces France across the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury; east of Kent's administrative capital Maidstone; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings...
  
  
• Durnovaria → Dorchester
• Efrawg → Eboracum/Eburacum → Eoferwic → Jorvik → York
  York
  York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...
  
  
• Glevum
  Glevum
  Glevum was a Roman fort in Roman Britain that become "colonia" of retired legionaries in AD 97. Today it is known as Gloucester, located in the English county of Gloucestershire...
  
   → Gloucester
  Gloucester
  Gloucester is a city, district and county town of Gloucestershire in the South West region of England. Gloucester lies close to the Welsh border, and on the River Severn, approximately north-east of Bristol, and south-southwest of Birmingham....
  
  
• Isca Dumnoniorum
  Isca Dumnoniorum
  Isca Dumnoniorum was a town in the Roman province of Britannia and the capital of Dumnonia in the sub-Roman period. Today it is known as Exeter, located in the English county of Devon.-Fortress:...
  
   → Exeter
  Exeter
  Exeter is a historic city in Devon, England. It lies within the ceremonial county of Devon, of which it is the county town as well as the home of Devon County Council. Currently the administrative area has the status of a non-metropolitan district, and is therefore under the administration of the...
  
  
• Cambodunum → Loidis → Leodis → Leedes → Leeds
  Leeds
  Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...
  
  
• Lindum Colonia
  Lindum Colonia
  Lindum Colonia was a town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is called Lincoln, in the English county of Lincolnshire.-Fort and name:...
  
   → Lincoln
  Lincoln, Lincolnshire
  Lincoln is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England.The non-metropolitan district of Lincoln has a population of 85,595; the 2001 census gave the entire area of Lincoln a population of 120,779....
  
  
• Londinium → Lundenwic → Lundenburgh → London
• Luguvallium → Caerluel → Carlisle
• Pons Aelius
  Pons Aelius
  Pons Aelius or Newcastle Roman Fort was an auxiliary castra and small Roman settlement on Hadrian's Wall in the Roman province of Britannia Inferior...
  
   → Monkchester → Newcastle upon Tyne
  Newcastle upon Tyne
  Newcastle upon Tyne is a city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Historically a part of Northumberland, it is situated on the north bank of the River Tyne...
  
  
• Ratae Corieltauvorum
  Ratae Corieltauvorum
  Ratae Corieltauvorum was a town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Leicester, located in the English county of Leicestershire.-Name:...
  
   → Kaerleir → Leicester
  Leicester
  Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest...
  
  
• Tigguo Cobauc → Snottingaham → Nottingham
  Nottingham
  Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...
  
  

Scotland

• Arderyth → Airdrie
  Airdrie, North Lanarkshire
  Airdrie is a town within North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies on a plateau roughly 400 ft above sea level, and is approximately 12 miles east of Glasgow city centre. Airdrie forms part of a conurbation with its neighbour Coatbridge, in the former district known as the Monklands. As of 2006,...
  
  
• Aberbrothock → Arbroath
  Arbroath
  Arbroath or Aberbrothock is a former royal burgh and the largest town in the council area of Angus in Scotland, and has a population of 22,785...
  
  
• Inverayr → Ayr
  Ayr
  Ayr is a town and port situated on the Firth of Clyde in south-west Scotland. With a population of around 46,000, Ayr is the largest settlement in Ayrshire, of which it is the county town, and has held royal burgh status since 1205...
  
  
• Alclud → Ail Chluaidh → Dumbarton
• Alec-tum → Dùn Dèagh → Dundee
  Dundee
  Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...
  
  
• Dùn Phàrlain → Dunfermline
  Dunfermline
  Dunfermline is a town and former Royal Burgh in Fife, Scotland, on high ground from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. According to a 2008 estimate, Dunfermline has a population of 46,430, making it the second-biggest settlement in Fife. Part of the town's name comes from the Gaelic word...
  
  
• Dun Eideann → Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
  
  
• Glascu → Glasgow
  Glasgow
  Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
  
  
• Cadzow → Hamilton
  Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
  Hamilton is a town in South Lanarkshire, in the west-central Lowlands of Scotland. It serves as the main administrative centre of the South Lanarkshire council area. It is the fifth-biggest town in Scotland after Paisley, East Kilbride, Livingston and Cumbernauld...
  
  
• Inbhir Uraidh → Inverury → Inverurie
  Inverurie
  Inverurie is a Royal Burgh and town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, approximately north west of Aberdeen on the A96 road and is served by Inverurie railway station on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line...
  
  
• Jeddart → Jedburgh
  Jedburgh
  Jedburgh is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and historically in Roxburghshire.-Location:Jedburgh lies on the Jed Water, a tributary of the River Teviot, it is only ten miles from the border with England and is dominated by the substantial ruins of Jedburgh Abbey...
  
  
• Kirkcaudy → Kirkcaldy
  Kirkcaldy
  Kirkcaldy is a town and former royal burgh in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. The town lies on a shallow bay on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth; SSE of Glenrothes, ENE of Dunfermline, WSW of Dundee and NNE of Edinburgh...
  
  
• Lithgae → Linlithgow
  Linlithgow
  Linlithgow is a Royal Burgh in West Lothian, Scotland. An ancient town, it lies south of its two most prominent landmarks: Linlithgow Palace and Linlithgow Loch, and north of the Union Canal....
  
  
• Pasgill → Paisley
  Paisley
  Paisley is the largest town in the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland and serves as the administrative centre for the Renfrewshire council area...
  
  
• St John's Toun (St Johnstone) → Perth
  Perth, Scotland
  Perth is a town and former city and royal burgh in central Scotland. Located on the banks of the River Tay, it is the administrative centre of Perth and Kinross council area and the historic county town of Perthshire...
  
  
• Newark → Port Glasgow
  Port Glasgow
  Port Glasgow is the second largest town in the Inverclyde council area of Scotland. The population according to the 1991 census for Port Glasgow was 19426 persons and in the 2001 census was 16617 persons...
  
  
• Cell Rígmonaid → Kilrymont → Muckross → St Andrews
  St Andrews
  St Andrews is a university town and former royal burgh on the east coast of Fife in Scotland. The town is named after Saint Andrew the Apostle.St Andrews has a population of 16,680, making this the fifth largest settlement in Fife....
  
  
• Strivelyn → Stirling
  Stirling
  Stirling is a city and former ancient burgh in Scotland, and is at the heart of the wider Stirling council area. The city is clustered around a large fortress and medieval old-town beside the River Forth...
  
  
• Cambusnethan → Wishawtown → Wishaw
  Wishaw
  Wishaw is a large town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is on the edge of the Clyde Valley, 15 miles south-east of Glasgow....
  
  

• Alburquerque → Albuquerque
  Albuquerque, New Mexico
  Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...
  
  , New Mexico
• Alexandria → Jackson
  Jackson, Tennessee
  Jackson is a city in Madison County, Tennessee, United States. The total population was 65,211 at the 2010 census. Jackson is the primary city of the Jackson, Tennessee metropolitan area, which is included in the Jackson-Humboldt, Tennessee Combined Statistical Area...
  
  , Tennessee
• Ammansland → Darby
  Darby, Pennsylvania
  Darby is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States, along Darby Creek southwest of downtown Philadelphia. It has a public library founded in 1743 and a cemetery more than 300 years old. The Quakers lived there early in the colonial era. Darby was settled about 1660 and was...
  
  , Pennsylvania
• Atkins Bank → Kingston → Kinston → Caswell → Kinston
  Kinston, North Carolina
  Kinston is a city in Lenoir County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 23,688 at the 2000 census. The population was estimated at 22,360 in 2008. It has been the county seat of Lenoir County since its formation in 1791 . Kinston is located in North Carolina's Inner Banks...
  
  , North Carolina
• Awiehawken → Weehawken
  Weehawken, New Jersey
  Weehawken is a township in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 12,554.-Geography:Weehawken is part of the New York metropolitan area...
  
  , New Jersey
• Bergen
  Bergen, New Netherland
  Bergen was a part of the 17th century province of New Netherland, in the area in northeastern New Jersey along the Hudson and Hackensack Rivers that would become contemporary Hudson and Bergen Counties...
  
   → Jersey City
  Jersey City, New Jersey
  Jersey City is the seat of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.Part of the New York metropolitan area, Jersey City lies between the Hudson River and Upper New York Bay across from Lower Manhattan and the Hackensack River and Newark Bay...
  
  , New Jersey
• Berlin → Marne
  Marne, Michigan
  Marne is an unincorporated community in Wright Township of Ottawa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Township offices are located in the community...
  
  , Michigan
• Beverwijck → Albany
  Albany, New York
  Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District. Roughly north of New York City, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River...
  
  , New York
• Breuckelen → Brooklyn (borough of New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
  , New York)
• Campbellton + Cross Creek → Fayetteville
  Fayetteville, North Carolina
  Fayetteville is a city located in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. It is the county seat of Cumberland County, and is best known as the home of Fort Bragg, a U.S. Army post located northwest of the city....
  
  , North Carolina
• Chamassungh → Finlandia → Marcus Hook
  Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania
  Marcus Hook is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population peaked in the 1920s with 5,324 inhabitants. 2,314 inhabitants were counted at the recent 2000 census. Marcus Hook's current mayor is James Schiliro. The borough calls itself "The Cornerstone of Pennsylvania"....
  
  , Pennsylvania
• Charleston → St. Charles
  St. Charles, Illinois
  St. Charles is a Chicago suburb in Kane and DuPage counties of Illinois, United States, and is roughly west of Chicago on Illinois Route 64. According to a 2004 census estimate, the city has a total population of 32,134. The official city slogan is Pride of the Fox, after the Fox River that runs...
  
  , Illinois
• Charles Towne → Charleston
  Charleston, South Carolina
  Charleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was made the county seat of Charleston County in 1901 when Charleston County was founded. The city's original name was Charles Towne in 1670, and it moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of the...
  
  , South Carolina
• Clark → DISH
  DISH, Texas
  DISH is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The town had an estimated population of 218 as of July 1, 2009, according to the United States Census Bureau. This community, established in June 2000, was originally named Clark...
  
  , Texas
• Cleaveland → Cleveland, Ohio
• Cowford → Jacksonville
  Jacksonville, Florida
  Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...
  
  , Florida
• Dearborn → Chicago, Illinois
  Chicago
  Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
  
  
• Earpville → Longview
  Longview, Texas
  Longview is a city in Gregg and Harrison Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 80,455. Most of the city is located in Gregg County, of which it is the county seat; only a small part extends into the western part of neighboring Harrison County. It is...
  
  , Texas
• East Detroit → Eastpointe
  Eastpointe, Michigan
  Eastpointe is a city in Macomb County of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 34,077. Eastpointe forms a part of the Metro Detroit area. It borders on 8 Mile Road on the northern edge of Detroit.- History :The community was first settled by Irish and German...
  
  , Michigan
• Fletcher → Aurora
  Aurora, Colorado
  City of Aurora is a Home Rule Municipality spanning Arapahoe, Adams, and Douglas counties in Colorado. Aurora is an eastern suburb of the Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area . The city is the third most populous city in the Colorado and the 56th most populous city in the...
  
  , Colorado
• Fort Casimir
  Fort Casimir
  Fort Casimir was a Dutch settlement in 17th century colonial province of New Netherland. It was located on a no-longer existing barrier island at the end of Chestnut Street in what is now New Castle, Delaware...
  
   → Fort Trefaldighet → New Amstel → New Castle
  New Castle, Delaware
  New Castle is a city in New Castle County, Delaware, six miles south of Wilmington, situated on the Delaware River. In 1900, 3,380 people lived here; in 1910, 3,351...
  
  , Delaware
• Fort Christina
  Fort Christina
  Fort Christina was the first Swedish settlement in North America and the principal settlement of the New Sweden colony...
  
   → Fort Altena → Wilmington
  Wilmington, Delaware
  Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States, and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley...
  
  , Delaware
• Fort Duquesne
  Fort Duquesne
  Fort Duquesne was a fort established by the French in 1754, at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in what is now downtown Pittsburgh in the state of Pennsylvania....
  
   → Fort Pitt
  Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania)
  Fort Pitt was a fort built at the location of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.-French and Indian War:The fort was built from 1759 to 1761 during the French and Indian War , next to the site of former Fort Duquesne, at the confluence the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River...
  
   → Pittsburgh → Pittsburg → Pittsburgh
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
  
  , Pennsylvania
• Fort Hoop
  Fort Hoop
  Fort Hoop was a settlement in the seventeenth century colonial province of New Netherland that eventually developed into Hartford, Connecticut.-History:...
  
   → Hartford
  Hartford, Connecticut
  Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...
  
  , Connecticut
• Fort Nassau → Fort Orange → Albany
  Albany, New York
  Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District. Roughly north of New York City, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River...
  
   → Willemstad → Albany
  Albany, New York
  Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District. Roughly north of New York City, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River...
  
  , New York
• Fort Nassau
  Fort Nassau (South River)
  Fort Nassau was a factorij in the colonial province of New Netherland from 1623-1651.The name Fort Nassau was used by the Dutch in the 17th century for several fortifications, mostly trading stations, named for the House of Orange-Nassau....
  
   → Gloucester City
  Gloucester City, New Jersey
  Gloucester City is a city in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2010 Census, the city population was 11,456.-Geography:Gloucester City is located at ....
  
  , New Jersey
• Gay Head → Aquinnah
  Aquinnah, Massachusetts
  Aquinnah is a town located on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. Prior to 1998 the town was officially known as Gay Head, which it is still called by most Islanders from the neighboring towns, but this name does not reflect as well the year-round population of a large American Indian...
  
  , Massachusetts
• Gamble's Mill → Shelby
  Shelby, Ohio
  Shelby is a city in Richland County in the U.S. state of Ohio, northwest of the city of Mansfield. It is part of the Mansfield, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 9,821 at the 2000 census.-History:...
  
  , Ohio
• Gorbit → Kit → Irving
  Irving, Texas
  Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city population was 216,290. Irving is within the Dallas–Plano–Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, designated...
  
  , Texas
• Great Salt Lake City → Salt Lake City, Utah
• Heemstede → Hempstead
  Hempstead, New York
  Hempstead is the name of some places in the State of New York, in the United States of America:*Hempstead , New York , a township that encompasses the village...
  
  , New York
• Hot Springs → Truth or Consequences
  Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
  Truth or Consequences is a spa city and the county seat of Sierra County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 7,289. It is commonly known within New Mexico as T or C....
  
  , New Mexico
• Jernigan → Orlando
  Orlando, Florida
  Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...
  
  , Florida
• Kingston → Conwayborough → Conway
  Conway, South Carolina
  Conway is a city in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 16,317 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Horry County and is part of the Myrtle Beach metropolitan area. It is the home of Coastal Carolina University....
  
  , South Carolina
• Lancaster → Lincoln
  Lincoln, Nebraska
  The City of Lincoln is the capital and the second-most populous city of the US state of Nebraska. Lincoln is also the county seat of Lancaster County and the home of the University of Nebraska. Lincoln's 2010 Census population was 258,379....
  
  , Nebraska
• Losantiville → Cincinnati, Ohio
• Marysville → Corvallis
  Corvallis, Oregon
  Corvallis is a city located in central western Oregon, United States. It is the county seat of Benton County and the principal city of the Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Benton County. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 54,462....
  
  , Oregon
• Mauch Chunk → Jim Thorpe
  Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
  Jim Thorpe is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA. The population was 4,804 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Carbon County. The town has been called the "Switzerland of America" due to the picturesque scenery, mountainous location, and architecture; as well as the "Gateway to...
  
  , Pennsylvania
• Mölndal → Yeadon
  Yeadon, Pennsylvania
  Yeadon is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. It borders the City of Philadelphia. The population was 11,762 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Yeadon is located at ....
  
  
• New Amsterdam
  New Amsterdam
  New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch colonial settlement that served as the capital of New Netherland. It later became New York City....
  
   → New York → New Orange → New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
  , New York
• Neppel → Moses Lake
  Moses Lake, Washington
  Moses Lake is a city in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 20,366 as of the 2010 census. Moses Lake is the largest city in Grant County.-Background:...
  
  , Washington
• Northampton → Allentown
  Allentown, Pennsylvania
  Allentown is a city located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is Pennsylvania's third most populous city, after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and the 215th largest city in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 118,032 and is currently...
  
  , Pennsylvania
• North Tarrytown → Sleepy Hollow
  Sleepy Hollow, New York
  Sleepy Hollow is a village in the town of Mount Pleasant in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, about north of midtown Manhattan in New York City, and is served by the Philipse Manor stop on the Metro-North Hudson Line.Originally...
  
  , New York
• Novoarkhangelsk → Sitka, Alaska
• Nya Stockholm → Bridgeport
  Bridgeport, New Jersey
  Bridgeport is an unincorporated area within Logan Township, located in Gloucester County, New Jersey. The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 08014....
  
  , New Jersey
• Pig’s Eye → St. Paul, Minnesota
  Saint Paul, Minnesota
  Saint Paul is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the state's largest city...
  
  
• Plantation of Penacook → Rumford → Concord
  Concord, New Hampshire
  The city of Concord is the capital of the state of New Hampshire in the United States. It is also the county seat of Merrimack County. As of the 2010 census, its population was 42,695....
  
  , New Hampshire
• Printztorp → Chester
  Chester, Pennsylvania
  Chester is a city in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States, with a population of 33,972 at the 2010 census. Chester is situated on the Delaware River, between the cities of Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware.- History :...
  
  , Pennsylvania
• Providence → Anne Arundel Towne → Annapolis
  Annapolis, Maryland
  Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland, as well as the county seat of Anne Arundel County. It had a population of 38,394 at the 2010 census and is situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River, south of Baltimore and about east of Washington, D.C. Annapolis is...
  
  , Maryland
• Saint Petersburg Beach → St. Pete Beach
  St. Pete Beach, Florida
  St. Pete Beach is a coastal city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States famous for its status as a tourist destination. St. Pete Beach was formed from the Towns of Pass-a-Grille, Don CeSar, Belle Vista, St. Petersburg Beach and unincorporated Pinellas County. At the time of its incorporation...
  
  , Florida
• Sellstown → Dublin
  Dublin, Ohio
  Dublin is a city in Franklin, Delaware, and Union counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 41,751 at the 2010 census. Dublin is a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. Approximately 57,000 people live within the Dublin school district....
  
  , Ohio
• Sing Sing → Ossining, New York
  Ossining (village), New York
  Ossining is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 25,060 at the 2010 census. As a village, it is located in the Town of Ossining.-Geography:Ossining borders the eastern shores of the widest part of the Hudson River....
  
  
• Spokan Falls → Spokane
  Spokane, Washington
  Spokane is a city located in the Northwestern United States in the state of Washington. It is the largest city of Spokane County of which it is also the county seat, and the metropolitan center of the Inland Northwest region...
  
  , Washington
• Staaten Eylandt → Staten Island (borough of New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
  , New York)
• Sveaborg → Swedesboro
  Swedesboro, New Jersey
  Swedesboro is a borough in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 2,055....
  
  , New Jersey
• Swilling's Mill → Hellinwg Mill → Mill City → East Phoenix → Phoenix
  Phoenix, Arizona
  Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...
  
  , Arizona
• Tequirassy → Eddystone
  Eddystone, Pennsylvania
  Eddystone is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,442 at the 2000 census.-Early history:The area at the mouth of Ridley Creek was first called "Tequirassy" by Native Americans. The land was owned by Olof Persson Stille, one of the early settlers from New...
  
  , Pennsylvania
• Terminus → Marthasville → Atlanta, Georgia
• Todos Santos → Concord
  Concord, California
  Concord is the largest city in Contra Costa County, California, USA. At the 2010 census, the city had a population of 122,067. Originally founded in 1869 as the community of Todos Santos by Salvio Pacheco, the name was changed to Concord within months...
  
  , California
• Upland → Chester
  Chester, Pennsylvania
  Chester is a city in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States, with a population of 33,972 at the 2010 census. Chester is situated on the Delaware River, between the cities of Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware.- History :...
  
  , Pennsylvania
• Vermilionville → Lafayette
  Lafayette, Louisiana
  Lafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Vermilion River. The population was 120,623 at the 2010 census...
  
  , Louisiana
• Wachau → Salem → Winston-Salem
  Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  Winston-Salem is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina, with a 2010 population of 229,617. Winston-Salem is the county seat and largest city of Forsyth County and the fourth-largest city in the state. Winston-Salem is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and is home to...
  
  , North Carolina
• Waterloo → Austin
  Austin, Texas
  Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
  
  , Texas
• Wineville → Mira Loma
  Mira Loma, California
  Mira Loma was a census-designated place in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 21,930 at the 2010 census, up from 17,617 at the 2000 census. Mira Loma was known as Wineville prior to 1930. The name was changed that year to help disassociate the community from the...
  
  , California
• Wiltwyck → Kingston
  Kingston, New York
  Kingston is a city in and the county seat of Ulster County, New York, USA. It is north of New York City and south of Albany. It became New York's first capital in 1777, and was burned by the British Oct. 16, 1777, after the Battles of Saratoga...
  
  , New York
• Wintonbury → Bloomfield
  Bloomfield, Connecticut
  Bloomfield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 20,626 at the 2009 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and 0.2 square miles is water.Bloomfield is bordered by Windsor to the...
  
  , Connecticut
• Yerba Buena → San Francisco
  San Francisco, California
  San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
  
  , California
• Zwaanendael
  Zwaanendael Colony
  Zwaanendael or Swaanendael was a short lived Dutch colonial settlement in Delaware. It was built in 1631. The name is archaic Dutch spelling for "swan valley" or dale...
  
   → Lewes
  Lewes, Delaware
  Lewes is an incorporated city in Sussex County, Delaware, USA, on the Delmarva Peninsula. According to the 2010 census, the population is 2,747, a decrease of 6.3% from 2000....
  
  , Delaware

See List of renamed cities in Uzbekistan

• Karmine → Navoiy
  Navoiy
  Navoiy also spelled as Navoi is a city and the capital of Navoiy Province in the southwestern part of Uzbekistan. It is located at latitude 40° 5' 4N; longitude 65° 22' 45E, at an altitude of 382 meters.-History:...
  
   (1958)
• Rishdan → Kuybishevo → Rishtan (1977)
• Leninsk → Asaka
  Asaka, Uzbekistan
  Asaka is a city in Andijan Province, Uzbekistan, to the east of Andijan in the Ferghana Valley. It was formerly known as Leninsk during the communist era. The first automobile assembly plant in Central Asia was opened there by an Uzbekistani-South Korean joint venture, UzDaewoo.-See also:* List of...
  
   (1938)
• Maracanda → Samarqand
• Novy Margelan → Skobelev (1910) → Farg'ona (1924)
• Qarabagish → Sovetobod (1972) → Xonobod

• Tourane → Đà Nẵng (Da Nang
  Da Nang
  Đà Nẵng , occasionally Danang, is a major port city in the South Central Coast of Vietnam, on the coast of the South China Sea at the mouth of the Han River. It is the commercial and educational center of Central Vietnam; its well-sheltered, easily accessible port and its location on the path of...
  
  )
• Tống Bình → Long Đỗ → Đại La → Thăng Long → Đông Đô → Đông Kinh → Bắc Thành → Thăng Long → Hà Nội (Hanoi
  Hanoi
  Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...
  
  )
• Hai Pho → Faifo → Hội An (Hoi An
  Hoi An
  Hội An , or rarely Faifo, is a city of Vietnam, on the coast of the South China Sea in the South Central Coast of Vietnam. It is located in Quang Nam province and is home to approximately 120,000 inhabitants...
  
  )
• Prey Nokor → Gia Ðịnh → Saigon → Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh (Ho Chi Minh City
  Ho Chi Minh City
  Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...
  
  )
• Phu Xuan → Huế (Huế
  Hue
  Hue is one of the main properties of a color, defined technically , as "the degree to which a stimulus can be describedas similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, green, blue, and yellow,"...
  
  )
• Ke Van → Ke Vinh → Vinh Giang → Vinh Doanh → Vinh Thi → Vinh
  Vinh
  Vinh is a city in Vietnam. It is located in the northern half of the country, and is the capital of Nghệ An Province. Politically, Vinh is a municipality within Nghệ An Province. On September 5th, 2008, it was upgraded from Grade-II city to Grade-I city, the fourth Grade-I city of Vietnam after...
  
  

(all 1982)

• Enkeldoorn → Chivhu
  Chivhu
  Chivhu is a small town in Zimbabwe, with an estimated population of 10,000 in 2007. It is located south of Harare on the main road south to Masvingo and South Africa.-History:...
  
  
• Essexvale → Esigodini
  Esigodini
  Esigodini is a village in Zimbabwe in Matabeleland South province. It is situated 43 km from Bulawayo by road and 47 km by rail on the Bulawayo-Beitbridge line. According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 1,492. Esigodini is the administrative centre for Umzingwane...
  
  
• Fort Victoria → Masvingo
  Masvingo
  Masvingo is a town in south-eastern Zimbabwe and the capital of Masvingo Province. The town is close to Great Zimbabwe, the national monument from which the country takes its name.- History :...
  
   (briefly called Nyanda)
• Gatooma → Kadoma
  Kadoma, Zimbabwe
  Kadoma is a city in Zimbabwe in the Mashonaland West province, 140 km south-west of Harare on the main road to Bulawayo. It was known as Gatooma until 1982....
  
  
• Gwelo → Gweru
  Gweru
  Gweru is a city near the centre of Zimbabwe at . It has a population of about 146,073 , making it the third largest city in the nation. Gweru is the capital of Midlands Province. Gweru was founded in 1894 by Dr. Leander Starr Jameson. The first bank opened in Gweru in 1896, and the stock exchange...
  
  
• Hartley → Chegutu
  Chegutu
  Chegutu is a town in the Mashonaland West province, northern Zimbabwe and is 110km southwest of Harare on the main Harare-Bulawayo road . According to the 1992 Population Census, the town had a population of 30,191...
  
  
• Marandellas → Marondera
  Marondera
  Marondera is a town in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, located about 72 km east of Harare; population 39,384...
  
  
• Matopos → Matobo
• Melsetter → Chimanimani
• Que Que → Kwekwe
  Kwekwe
  Kwekwe or Kwe Kwe , formerly spelt Que Que, is a city in central Zimbabwe. It is located in the centre of the country —roughly equidistant from Harare to the northeast and Bulawayo to the southwest. Its population stood at 47,607 in 1982, 75,425 in 1992 and the preliminary result of the 2002...
  
  
• Salisbury → Harare
  Harare
  Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...
  
  
• Selukwe → Shurugwi
  Shurugwi
  Shurugwi, formerly Selukwe, a town and administrative centre in Midlands Province, southern Zimbabwe, located about 350 km south of Harare; population 16,138...
  
  
• Shabani → Zvishavane
• Sinoia → Chinhoyi
  Chinhoyi
  Chinhoyi is a large provincial town and is the capital of Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe. Sinoia was established in 1906 as a group settlement scheme by a wealthy Italian called Lieutenant Margherito Guidotti who encouraged 10 Italian families to settle there.- Overview :Chinhoyi is located...
  
  
• Umtali → Mutare
  Mutare
  Mutare is the fourth largest city in Zimbabwe, with a population of around 170,000. It is the capital of Manicaland province.-History:...
  
  
• Wankie → Hwange
  Hwange
  Hwange is a town in western Zimbabwe, in the province of Matabeleland North. It is named after the chieftain of Zwange, who is now called Chief Hwange. The town was known as Wankie until 1982. According to the 1992 Population Census, the town had a population of 42,581...
  
  

Sources and references

(incomplete)

• Westermann, Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte (in German)
• City of Melbourne Web site
• Ballarat history
• Of Bangalore, Bengaluru and Belagavi List compiled by the (Greek) National Documentation Centre (EKT)

See also

• List of administrative division name changes